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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Granville Sewell: Why does Darwinism remain popular when new findings make it less plausible every day?

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March 3, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Sewell: Most non-scientists intuitively understand that explaining how plants and animals, and intelligent, conscious humans, could have arisen from a lifeless, barren planet is a very different and much more difficult problem than others solved by science. But most scientists are still confident that nothing could possibly be beyond the reach of their science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Culture
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Early stone tool culture of Neanderthals and other humans lasted much longer than thought

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March 3, 2021
Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Overlap between the two cultures for many thousands of years would make a lot of sense because the newer technologies may not have been self-evidently better. Many considerations of time, energy, and risk would need to be factored in. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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At Oscillations: Cytogeneticist Antonio Lima-de-Faria torches obscurantism in science in new book, Suzan Mazur reports

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March 3, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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He was an early non-Darwinian evolutionist (1988 is pretty early), mainly a structuralist. He continues to publish books at nearly 100 years of age. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 2, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Eric Holloway: Is AI the next stage of evolution?

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March 2, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Holloway: The complex organization of energy we humans see around us in our verdant fertile nest is enormously atypical. This fundamental law drives right through the heart of any technology, genetic or otherwise, that we might invent … Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 1, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Origin Of Life
science education
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NASA stresses naturalist origin of life to kids

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March 1, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, science education
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Example: In response to a question re space aliens, "“The question presumes that aliens do exist. And again, because we haven’t found any yet, we don’t know if they do. It is possible they may exist, for one simple reason: we exist. Whatever made the likes of bacteria evolve into complex bodies with intelligent brains on Earth may have also occurred on another planet.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 1, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
language
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Researchers: Neanderthals could speak like other humans

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March 1, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, language
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Researchers: “Most previous studies of Neandertal speech capacities focused on their ability to produce the main vowels in English spoken language. However, we feel this emphasis is misplaced, since the use of consonants is a way to include more information in the vocal signal and it also separates human speech and language from the communication patterns in nearly all other primates." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 28, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
theism
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Wintery Knight asks: Can one believe in both God and Darwinian evolution?

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February 28, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theism
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Matheson now blogs at (but, of course) Peaceful Science where he describes himself as a “secular humanist” (August 3, 2020). All of which raises a question: Do people embrace Darwinism and then lose their faith? Or is it more like this: Darwinism is a convenient and socially acceptable explanation for loss of faith, which may also have other roots? Read More ›