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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 21, 2022
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Cell biology
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Are all those codes used by cells really “codes”?

News
May 21, 2022
Cell biology, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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One biologist thinks that only DNA is really a code. David Coppedge disagrees. Coppedge: But it seems fair to categorize codes separately if they contain unique information and produce unique results. Even if histones are built from DNA, once they are assembled, they no longer rely on the genetic code. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 20, 2022
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extinction
Intelligent Design
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Some species thought to be extinct may simply be “lost”

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May 20, 2022
extinction, Intelligent Design
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Apart from loss of habitat due to human encroachment, it would be interesting to know whether there is much study of patterns that govern extinctions — that is, natural extinctions. Paleontologist David Raup (1933–2015) wrote quite a good book on the topic, Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck in 1991 but it’s not clear how much has been done since then. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 20, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: Astronomers question if the first picture of a black hole is accurate – Rob Sheldon comments

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May 20, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon: In fact, the only thing going for the original "ring" picture, was that it matched expectations. Which is another way of saying, it was a circular logic reconstruction. My claim is that this is too often true of numerous "scientific discoveries", where we use computer models to help perform the reconstruction. This is true of "gravitational waves", it is true of "global climate models" it is true of "evolutionary trees", it is true of "tree ring dendochronology". We have been deceived by the ease with which computer models can simulate real data, and as my retired nuclear engineer friend would say, "How do we know when our computer model is done? When we get the answer we want." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 19, 2022
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Design inference
Intelligent Design
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Dave Coppedge on how whales give evidence for the design of life

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May 19, 2022
Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Coppedge: The Illustra Media documentary Living Waters: Intelligent Design in the Oceans of the Earth shares amazing information about humpback whales: their enigmatic songs, their multiple adaptations for aquatic life that defy the evolutionary mechanism, and the “miraculous web” of blood vessels that refrigerates the male reproductive organs to safe levels for sperm production. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 18, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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At The Federalist: What design can explain about life’s origins that chance can’t

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May 18, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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The scientific establishment is slowly beginning to allow scientists who believe in intelligent design to have a platform. Why? It may be because the theory that the universe was crafted intentionally explains many essential realities that theories based on spontaneous chance do not… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 18, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Why cats can remember other cats’ names

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May 18, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Cats are more intelligent than they have been given credit for in the past but they don’t do abstractions. To the extent that a cat recognizes his own name or another cat’s name, he interprets it as a signal that attention is being paid and that something may happen. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 18, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin at Hillfaith: Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections

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May 18, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Luskin: ID is not based upon what we don’t know — an argument from ignorance or gaps in our knowledge — but rather, is based upon what we do know about the origin of information-rich structures, as testified to by the observed information-generative powers of intelligent agents. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2022
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At Evolution News: How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

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May 17, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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West: Unfortunately, the Buffalo shooter’s evolutionary racism is not an outlier among recent mass killers. Arguments drawn from evolution have been prominent in the ideologies of many mass shooters in recent years, including Anders Breivik in 2011, a Norwegian mass murderer cited as a role model by the Buffalo shooter. Other shooters smitten by Darwinian evolution have included the Columbine High School shooters in 1999, Finnish shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen in 2007, the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter in 2009, and the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter in 2019. Read More ›