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Denyse O'Leary
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May 7, 2021
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Cell biology
Evolution
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: The last bacterial common ancestor had a flagellum

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May 7, 2021
Cell biology, Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Question: If the last common ancestor of the bacterium had a flagellum, what do we really know about the evolution of the flagellum? Isn’t that a bit like finding a stone laptop in a Neanderthal cave? That said, it’s nice to see horizontal gene transfer getting proper recognition. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 6, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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According to astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, the universe has never truly been empty

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May 6, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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But wait. If it was truly empty, it would not exist, right? What we mean by the “universe” is everything that exists. So, if it’s “empty,” nothing exists. Of course, it could always exist as an abstract idea but then it must be the abstract idea of a Being in another dimension. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 6, 2021
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Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Bats are born knowing how to measure speed in time, not distance

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May 6, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Most interesting. But what does the professor mean when he says, "we hypothesize that an evolutionary 'choice' was made to be born with this knowledge in order to save time during the sensitive development period." So evolution is a designer that makes choices? But, as Michael Behe would ask, “How, exactly?” He can’t walk away from the problem just by putting “choice” in quotation marks. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 6, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Media
Science
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National Academy of Sciences attempts to grapple with “misinformation” and “disinformation”

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May 6, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Well, re COVID-19, a good deal of that disinformation and misinformation was purveyed by authorities, scientific and political. Books have been written about that. It’s going to take a long time to come back from this and authoritarian posturing won’t help. It would just prove the cynics right. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 5, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Science
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Re design in nature: New AAAS head says… What? Follow the… evidence?

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May 5, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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Of course, Dr. Parikh may be forced to clarify and qualify, to make clear that Darwinism, however implausible in the light of new evidence, occupies a special position as the single greatest idea anyone ever had. But if he even put on the table the idea of following the evidence instead of the demand for assent, he can't just take it back with no one noticing. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 4, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Michael Flannery on non-Darwinian discoverer of the Archaea, Carl Woese

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May 4, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Woese as "scarred revolutionary"? He had to fight hard to get the Archaea, the third kingdom of life, accepted. He regretted that he had not succeeded in overthrowing “the hegemony of the culture of Darwin.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 4, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Hybridization is much more common and normal among animals than once thought

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May 4, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Darwinian Ernst Mayr cast doubt on hybridization as an important source of change so for decades few believed it could be. Now, says one researcher, the consensus is that it “is hugely widespread and much more common than was appreciated.” But isn’t hybridization cutting into a lot of the things Darwinism supposedly did? Read More ›