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Denyse O'Leary
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June 12, 2022
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Eureka! Researchers discover the Gollum effect in academia

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June 12, 2022
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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At Times Higher: Scholars who examined “research opportunity guarding” – how some professors have lied, threatened and sought to sabotage the careers of those seeking to move into their topic – liken the behaviour to that of the maniacally possessive guardian of the Ring of Power from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth chronicles. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 12, 2022
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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What would Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas say about Adam and Eve and paleontology?

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June 12, 2022
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Thomas Aquinas (1225– 1274) was instrumental in organizing Christian theology along Aristotelian lines. Here, a priest who is familiar with his thought, offers some comments. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 12, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Transhumanism: Human, computer, animal — all just a choice now…

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June 12, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Wesley Smith talks with Dr. Elaina George about the new secular religion of Transhumanism or H+ — immortality without tears for atheists — if it’s even possible. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 8, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Researchers: Our brains use data compression to get things right

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June 8, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Curiously, we humans often invent things by design for a purpose and yet, when we find the same things in nature, some conclude that

Takehome: Curiously, we humans often invent things by design for a purpose and yet, when we find the same things in nature, some conclude that there is no design or purpose in nature…

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Denyse O'Leary
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June 4, 2022
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Steve Gould’s Punk Eek is right; evolution can pause a long time, then happen rapidly

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June 4, 2022
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Punctuated equilibrium is what we observe but it isn’t popular. Punk eek makes it even less likely that life develops due to unintelligent random processes. It just does not allow anywhere near enough time. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 4, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Mind
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At Mind Matters News: The hive mind: Leafcutter ants behave like farmhands but…

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June 4, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Ants’ complex behavior patterns are part of following a colony algorithm rather than making individual decisions. They make immediate individual decisions but the hive mind of the colony makes the big ones. We humans struggle to understand the hive mind because our world is one of uniquely individual minds that can, with effort, be got to work together — for a while. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 2, 2022
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Animal minds
Information
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Researchers: Humans process information differently from monkeys

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June 2, 2022
Animal minds, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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The researchers found that, from an information theory perspective, human brains engage in less redundant and more synergistic processing than macaques. So information theory supports human exceptionalism where Darwinism doesn’t? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 2, 2022
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Genetics
Intelligent Design
Plants
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Fun: A giant undersea meadow turned out to be a single organism – the world’s largest

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June 2, 2022
Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
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At Futurism: "According to The Guardian, this single Posidonia australis plant, more commonly known as ribbon weed, spans an astonishing 77 square miles of undersea land off the coast of western Australia's Shark Bay. For perspective, that's three times the size of Manhattan. Move over, trees! There's a new — well, ~4,500 year old — giant in town." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 2, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: A little-known structure tells our brains what matters now

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June 2, 2022
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Takehome: The cuneate nucleus (CN) in the brain stem turns out to communicate regularly with your prefrontal cortex and spine as to what you had better notice. The more we learn about the brain, the less likely it seems to be purely a product of material, natural causes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 31, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Asked at The Scientist: Do invertebrates have feelings?

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May 31, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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What we are learning is that invertebrate status is not, by itself, evidence of an inability to think or feel — as we used to suppose. In a world full of information and intelligence, it’s not nearly as tidy as our biology teachers thought. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 31, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Fun! Are these the most realistic CGI dinosaurs ever?

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May 31, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Gizmodo says they are: … Now, I suggest you compare all that you’ve seen about dinosaurs before to Apple TV+’s newest five-part series, Prehistoric Planet, which shows the true lives of dinosaurs as they were 66 million years ago, to our best current understanding. There are reptiles that need back scratches, hadrosaurs harried by mosquitos, and pterosaurs stressed out about finding a mate. In other words, Prehistoric Planet makes it apparent how similar (in some ways) dinosaurs are to us. And it makes those depictions super-real using top-of-the-line CGI and the work of over 1,500 people, including paleoartists, CGI artists, paleontologists, cinematographers, and more (like Sir David Attenborough, who narrated the series). Isaac Schultz, “These 13 Images Depict the Most Read More ›