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Denyse O'Leary
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October 20, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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One of those rare instances where science is self-correcting … Ioannidis is vindicated

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October 20, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Peer review
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Hey, that's good news. But what about all the people whose lives were turned upside down by the herd of stampeding buffalo otherwise known as our moral and intellectual superiors? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 20, 2020
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Some researchers arrive at an important truth about “consensus science”

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October 20, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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Researchers: “When individuals are fully independent, even under highly unfavorable circumstances a consensus provides strong evidence for the correctness of the affirmed position. This no longer remains the case once dependence, polarization, and external pressure are introduced. With such interventions, the probability of a false consensus increases dramatically. ” “Shut up, he explained” is not consensus, it’s false consensus. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 20, 2020
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Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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Karsten Pultz offers some thoughts on the flap over the now-famous Thorvaldsen and Hössjer paper

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October 20, 2020
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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It should also be considered that in his book Der Teil und das Ganze, Werner Heisenberg expresses his own and also Niels Bohrs’ doubt that random mutations could have produced any of the complex biological systems... Bohr adds that while natural selection obviously occurs it is the idea that new species come about by random changes, which is very hard to imagine, even if this is the only way science can explain it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Science
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Science writer mourns the slow suicide of science

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October 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Alex Berezow: "Political partisanship. There was a time when scientists knew better than to deal in politics. That time is now gone. Openly cheering for one side of the political spectrum over the other, scientists and science media outlets are gambling with their reputation." Well, from an international perspective, here’s the obvious problem: If the US Prez is THAT important, science ain’t what it used to be. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2020
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Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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That notorious ID paper was the one most downloaded from the Journal…

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October 19, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Eventually, people, we are going to have to start rewarding the Darwinians for banning and persecuting advocates of design in nature. Look, guys, it's only fair. Mediocrities steam themselves into near oblivion to destroy the idea and their efforts only fan the flames. Sadly, all we wanted was a serious discussion. We never asked them to be Roman candles. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 18, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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A humanities scholar gets a clue about what Darwinism IS

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October 18, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Amazing! Hey, here, we were all waiting for Freestone to try out the CLUNK!! on us: “If you believe in God, well, rejoice! God can use Darwinism too!” Luckily, we didn’t hear it. We are sick of certifying idiots. For one thing, we've run out of certificates. And anyhow, Freestone doesn’t sound like an idiot. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 18, 2020
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Religion, science, … and the religion of science facing COVID-19

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October 18, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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In fact, during the COVID crisis, a great deal of the blather for science made no sense at all, a fact that is becoming more and more evident. People won't immediately give up believing in science as a result. Rather, they will begin to treat it as the superstition of the social elite. It doesn’t make sense and doesn’t need to. It is wisely got around wherever possible.That's not what science used to be but that;s what many policy decisions have made it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2020
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Darwinism
Evolution
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Watching microorganisms bend “the rules” of evolution

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October 17, 2020
Darwinism, Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: “It was previously thought that the only genes that could spread through a population were those that caused a benefit 'right now' (in the environment that the population is experiencing at that point in time).” That’s Darwinism. And Darwinism is becoming comprehensively out of date. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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Mike Egnor on why Coyne and Hossenfelder are wrong to deny free will

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October 17, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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Egnor: Now let’s get to the neuroscience. Neuroscience has a lot to contribute to the debate over free will and all of it supports the reality of free will. There isn’t a shred of neuroscientific evidence that contradicts the reality of free will. Read More ›