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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2020
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New England Journal of Medicine joins the chorus, demanding that Americans vote Trump out of office

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November 1, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Doubtless, the science journal editors believe that Trump will be defeated and they will claim some credit for that. Fair enough. But it’s possible that Trump will be reelected. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all served two terms each. And Trump won the last election despite all the polls that announced he would lose. Should that happen, the journal editors will be in the unhappy position of being widely seen to be ignored. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2020
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Ethics
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Can we grow human brains in a dish?

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November 1, 2020
Ethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Zeiger: These brain-like entities lack some very important neurological cell types that would make them truly “brains.” But many wonder whether we can make brains with human-like consciousness in a dish. Unfortunately, some conflate the mind with the brain and consciousness with brain activity, which creates confusion … Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 1, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life

New organic compounds “could have” formed the first cells

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November 1, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Has anyone noticed the role that “could have” now plays in Correct science? And what does it mean to say “the origin of life a more common phenomenon than previously thought.” Can we point to other specific examples? It's an interesting idea in principle but the wheels will probably come off fairly quickly. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life

Mathematician Granville Sewell offers six top evidences for ID

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October 30, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Sewell: Maybe some day human engineers will design a self-replicating machine, like those we see everywhere in the living world, but it will not happen in my lifetime, and it will not be simple. It will certainly not show that such a machine could have arisen without design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 30, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Naturalism
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James Randi (1928-2020)

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October 30, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
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Thing is, the kind of skepticism Randi represented was based in a world where everyone agreed that 2 + 2 = 4. Today, it is NOT doubters of Darwin, etc., who are destroying science. Hardly! It is the ensconced science bureaucrats who are willing to entertain the destruction of math and—be sure of it—eventually, just plain literacy. It would be good to think that Randi never came to know of the doom. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 30, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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Did the black hole paradox really come to an end? Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

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October 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: Black Holes are a theoretical and empirical disaster. Given two possible assumptions to Schwarzschild’s solution of Einstein’s gravity equation, nearly everyone has taken the discontinuous, unphysical, "event-horizon" assumption leading to "Black Holes". One of the many predictions of BH, is that they cannot have magnetic fields, and they destroy anything that falls into them, converting all that matter into "Hawking radiation". What about all that data showing high density objects at the center of our galaxy and neighboring galaxies? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design

Mathematician John Lennox warns about the darkening intellectual scene

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October 30, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Lennox: "One of the things that I never tire of saying is: Look to the origin of the great universities. They were mostly founded on Christian thinking. That is extremely important. Now what we’ve got is the dominance of naturalism, with universities going against their very foundation." Yes, when freedom of speech - for example - threatens them, they sure have a problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2020
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Cambrian explosion
Ediacaran
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Precambrian creature scrunches the origin of life even further

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October 29, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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This “revolutionary animal” is not that much like the Cambrian creatures so far found but the big question is, how did life explode so quickly if it was only by chance? Why not just give up on that idea and study the creature for what it is? Read More ›