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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 3, 2020
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Cambrian explosion
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Sophisticated eyes from over 500 million years ago

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December 3, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Okay, but wait. Just because it would benefit a life form to have sophisticated eyes does not mean that it can just start growing them. That’s where Darwinism begins to shade into magic. There’s a missing factor here: How, exactly, were the prey life forms enabled to participate in the complex business of producing vision in response to the predator’s vision? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 3, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Can a big enough computer come up with a Theory of Everything? Eric Holloway says yer dreamin’…

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December 3, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Bottom line: The rigorously proven No Free Lunch theorem shows that physicists will always be needed to determine the correct questions. No computer will do all our thinking for us. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 2, 2020
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Academic Freedom
Cambrian explosion
Intelligent Design
speciation
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Is a vast variety of new cichlid species in ten million years a “burst”?

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December 2, 2020
Academic Freedom, Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, speciation
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One can talk about the cichlid "burst" that lasted ten million years but now, the term “explosion” has become politically incorrect usage to describe the Cambrian because shut up. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 2, 2020
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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So fine tuning of the universe for life goes right down to the level of the atom?

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December 2, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Our universe seems fine-tuned for life to come into existence, as Michael Denton stresses. If so, life may indeed inhabit other planets. If people believe that there is intelligent life on other planets in the galaxy, the best theory to support it, absent evidence at present, is intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 1, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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New hopes raised for recovering skin, eggshell samples from fossils

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December 1, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A real advantage is that promising “biomarkers” may be found in fossils that are too fragmentary to make it into the display collection. If so, expect to hear expressions like “unexpected,” “remarkable,” “earlier than thought” and “more complex than expected” quite frequently. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 1, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Just For Fun
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The monolith has disappeared…

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December 1, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun
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The CORRECT explanation, of course, is that it lost the battle for survival of the fittest to fitter competitors and will not contribute, starting from non-life, to the origin of a new type of life via abiogenesis. But apparently, a new monolith has evolved and then suddenly gone extinct in Romania. Nature red in tooth and claw, and all that... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2020
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extinction
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Tens of thousands of rock paintings from 12,500 ya discovered in Colombia

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November 30, 2020
extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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From The Guardian: Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Dark matter and dark energy as 21st century Ptolemaic epicycles? – Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

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November 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Why can’t they find dark matter, despite much search? Sheldon: The old joke is that a man is looking under a lamppost one night. The policeman asks what he is doing. "Looking for my keys" he replies. "Did you lose them here?" "No, but the light is better over here." (And the funding is better for some research than for others.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2020
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Academic Freedom
Culture
Intelligent Design
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Snowball Earth prof attacked by Cancel Culture

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November 30, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Jacobson warns, “What is so disturbing is the large number of graduate and post-doctoral students who signed the list of demands. I warned in 2017 that STEM would not be immune to the social justice (and racial) warfare tearing through universities.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2020
Categories
Cambrian explosion
Intelligent Design
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At Geological Society of America’s house rag: QUIT calling it the Cambrian Explosion!

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November 30, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
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Sorry, guys. The Cambrian is a bit like quantum theory. Anyone who ISN’T flummoxed by it doesn’t understand it. Now comes the punch line: “We suggest, as an alternative to “Cambrian explosion,” the Great Cambrian Biodiversification (GCB)…” Sure, that’ll catch on. It sounds like a large animal vet’s description of an elephant’s bowel problems. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Religion
Science
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At Nautilus: How Einstein reconciled religion to science

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November 29, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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Actually, despite the article’s title, Einstein didn’t reconcile anything. He said different things at different times to different people. And it didn’t matter. People took what they wanted from it. It sounds as though he didn’t really have a firm opinion. Read More ›