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Denyse O'Leary
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April 27, 2020
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Icelandic genome provides clues to Neanderthal history, creates puzzle

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April 27, 2020
Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Puzzle: However, the researchers also found significant fragments of genetic material from another archaic species of human, Denisovans, in the DNA of the Icelanders, and this was something of a surprise. Up to now, Denisovan genes have primarily been found in Australian Aborigines, East Asians and people in Papua New Guinea. So how did these genes end up in Islanders' DNA? And when? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 27, 2020
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Darwinism
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Michael Egnor: Jerry Coyne just can’t give up denying free will

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April 27, 2020
Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Egnor: Someday, I predict, there will be a considerable psychiatric literature on the denial of free will. It’s essentially a delusion dressed up as science. To insist that your neurotransmitters completely control your choices is no different than insisting that your television or your iphone control your thoughts. It’s crazy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 26, 2020
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Information
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Evolutionary Informatics Lab guys on COVID-19: When 900 bytes shut down the world

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April 26, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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A great physicist warned us, information precedes matter and energy: Bit before it: The COVID-19 virus contains about as much information as a sticker in WhatsApp. Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón explore a dreadful truth: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”: Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón: I really think that information is more fundamental to nature than matter and energy and what we are seeing here is how this small amount of information can produce a big change. Not only in a small area; it’s the whole world that is paralyzed… There is a primacy of information, as some physicists have said in the Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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April 25, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Biologists find newer, Woker explanations for sex

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April 25, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Something worth considering: In animals, generally speaking, sexual bonding resulting in co-operative parenting is most evident among the larger, more complex, and more intelligent species. If so, a microbe doesn’t do what a wolf pack or elephant herd does because the demands of pack or herd life may be beyond the microbe’s information resources. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 24, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Rob Sheldon on Darwinian Jerry Coyne’s difficulty in swallowing the new Woke science

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April 24, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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"Woke" science is bad science and heavily biassed toward PC answers while abusing the data. What perhaps Coyne doesn't appreciate, is that the same methods used by woke science are used by Darwinist science, and indeed by any science captured by an ideology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 22, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Paper: So many exceptions to sex chromosome evolution

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April 22, 2020
Intelligent Design
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From the paper: “Finally, the remarkable turnover of sex chromosomes in many systems, as well as variation in the rate of sex chromosome divergence, suggest that assumptions about the inevitable linearity of sex chromosome evolution are not always empirically supported, and the drivers of the birth-death cycle of sex chromosome evolution remain to be elucidated. ” Read More ›