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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2021
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Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Ethan Siegel tells us why he thinks colonizing super-Earths would end in disaster

News
February 20, 2021
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Siegel thinks that a rocky planet of more than 30% greater radius than Earth stands a good change of becoming a gas giant in consequence of its size. Earth is the right size to avoid that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2021
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Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Sequencing oldest DNA ever from mammoths provides a window into limits on recovering DNA

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February 19, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At Smithsonian Magazine: That Mammuthus columbi originated as a new species, born of a hybridization event, “has major implications for our understanding of the population structure of Pleistocene megabeasts,” MacPhee says. The ancestors of the woolly mammoth and the Krestova mammoth had diverged from each other for about a million years before a population produced a hybrid that was different from both, giving rise to Mammuthus columbi. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2021
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Academic Freedom
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
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A Twitter mob made a mistake when it went after an AI industry giant

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February 19, 2021
Academic Freedom, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design
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Pedro Domingos: In my confrontation with the AI cancel crowd, I was particularly helped by the fact that several of the ringleaders are (or call themselves) professional AI ethicists. Some of them are even well-known within their field. When they serially engaged in childish and unethical behavior in full view of their colleagues, they did my job for me. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Some thoughts from a reader on Behe’s vindication at Lehigh

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February 18, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Remember, these same authors wrote a scathing review of Darwin Devolves in the journal Evolution. Now, somehow, they must hold their position of opposing Darwin Devolves, while presenting compelling evidence to support Darwin Devolves. Quite a conundrum! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Behe vindicated (still not cited) at his own LeHigh University

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February 18, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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One might ask: If things go downhill that way and “directionality and progress in evolution may be illusory,” what is the source of intelligent designs? An intelligence in or beyond nature? We’ll take either as an answer, to start a discussion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At The Guardian: What to do about the Political Incorrectness of Darwin’s Descent of Man

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February 18, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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We don’t think Darwin should be Cancelled either because we don’t live in the Year Zero. But if some were minded to Cancel Darwin, this would not be a very good argument against it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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At Nature Heredity Mike Behe vindicated but not cited

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February 17, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At Nature Heredity: Discoveries during the subsequent two decades have continued to support the idea that loss of function contributes to adaptation (Murray 2020), with cases of adaptive or beneficial loss of function being discovered across diverse organisms, genes, traits, and environments.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Farewell to Tom Bethell (1936–2021), one of the earliest modern Darwin skeptics

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February 17, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Laszlo Bencze, writes to say, “I am very saddened to hear of Tom Bethell’s death. Not only was he pivotal in my turning away from Darwinism due to his 1976 Harper’s article which I clipped from the magazine and still have but we also became friends during one of his visits to California." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2021
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Animal minds
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Does evolution help us understand why some species in the same genus are significantly smarter than others?

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February 17, 2021
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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One could simply say, “Evolving more intelligence helped the animal to survive.” The trouble with that explanation is, many free-roaming life forms would probably survive more readily if they were more intelligent. But they do not develop greater intelligence on that account. There must be more to the story. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2021
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Academic Freedom
Culture
Intelligent Design
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Fighting back against Big Tech? Take a leaf from Seattle

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February 17, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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West: "Unlike most political jurisdictions in the United States, Seattle expressly forbids discrimination on the basis of “political ideology.” Seattle defines political ideology expansively" Big Tech, take heed. Read More ›