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2022

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 19, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Claim: Intelligent design theory is a science stopper

News
February 19, 2022
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Cornelius Hunter takes it on. Incidentally, the fact that this promissory materialism, for which Darwinism is the origin story, is all hype and no hope never means anything. A fresh batch of media will bring up the same worn themes. And it's as close to science as large numbers of educated mediocrities ever want to get. Read More ›
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February 19, 2022
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Academic Freedom
Canada
Control vs Anarchy
Defending our Civilization
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Vivid’s comment on Critical [Race] Theory i/l/o the clash with truckers — what culture form marxists do with power

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February 19, 2022
Academic Freedom, Canada, Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, rhetoric
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Yet another headlined comment, here from Vivid answering Sc in the lab rats thread: Vivid, 281: >>[Sc:] “I am aware of critical race theory but I honestly haven’t given it much thought. My gut tells me that there are some morsels of truth in it but that it is greatly overhyped as an explanation for things seen in society.” [Vivid:] It is not overhyped it is the meta narrative of our age. Here are some excerpts from a letter to a few friends several years ago. “Once I came to understand Critical Theory everything became clear. I understand why Van Jones says white people have a virus that others don’t , I mean just wow!! I understand why even though Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2022
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Intelligent Design
speciation
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Evolution problems: “Species” is such a mess of a concept

News
February 18, 2022
Intelligent Design, speciation
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And evolutionary biologists keep looking for examples in nature, with meagre results. One way of attempting to demonstrate speciation is to seize on inconsequential genetic changes and inflate their importance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Natural selection
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Devolution in a flower is remarketed as “sudden evolutionary change”

News
February 18, 2022
Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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If a lineage of peacocks lost the showy tails due to a transmissible genetic defect — but was thus better able to flee predators — that could also be marketed as “sudden evolutionary change.” But what question about the origin of complex life would such terminology engineering really answer? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2022
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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E. O. Wilson and racism: The smoking gun is found

News
February 18, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Some have dismissed the findings but others say they fit a pattern. From Schulson's story: “I don’t really care that Wilson had racist ideas, because I know pretty much all of the people that I dealt with, when I was coming up through the science system, had racist ideas,” said [evolutionary biologist Joseph] Graves, who in 1988 became the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. “Wilson was just one of many.” Oh. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2022
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
specified complexity
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Here’s the webinar on topoisomerase, the complex ,specified “untangling” enzyme in our cells

News
February 18, 2022
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, specified complexity
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Introduction: The carefully orchestrated untangling activity of topoisomerase II doesn’t happen by accident. This enzyme is a molecular machine that only works because its amino acid sequence is highly specified to provide a special shape and structure necessary for its function. In other words, topoisomerase enzymes contain high levels of complex and specified information—a hallmark of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 17, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Natural selection
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The Galapagos finches as fractured icons of Darwinian evolution

News
February 17, 2022
Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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Wells: When the drought ended and the rains returned, however, food was plentiful, and the average beak size returned to normal. No net evolution had occurred. Nevertheless, “Darwin’s finches” found their way into most biology textbooks as evidence for evolution by natural selection. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 17, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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As 24 nonsense papers are retracted, Daily Sceptic asks, What happened to peer review?

News
February 17, 2022
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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That’s what “Trust the Science” does. It enables a superstitious reverence for nonsense at best and corruption at worst. And only occasionally does anyone in charge need to pretend to reform anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Philosophy
Science
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When the Centers for Disease Control abandon science…

News
February 17, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Prasad: "Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. This research is plagued with classic errors and biases, and does not support the press-released conclusions that often follow." After a while, the public will catch on. The reputation of science is not going to do well out of the “Trust the Science!” phase. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 16, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Wells: Why molecular phylogeny is a problem in evolution

News
February 16, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Wells: If two sequences can be aligned in more than one way, then any comparison will depend heavily on what alignment the investigator chooses. And when many sequences are compared, as they are in molecular phylogenies, the problem becomes much worse. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 16, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: The remarkable things we’re learning about bird intelligence

News
February 16, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Crows and chimpanzees are thought to have last had a common ancestor 300 million years ago. Bees are thought to have had a common ancestor with them 600 million years ago. But crows, chimpanzees, and bees are all much more closely related to life forms that have not attracted attention for their intelligence. Are we just missing their intelligence? Or perhaps the question of unusual intelligence in some birds and other life forms but not others is one of the fruitful mysteries of science that invites further study. Read More ›