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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2020
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Books of interest
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Religion
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String theorist’s philosophy of life – Time’s reviewer laps it up

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February 23, 2020
Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Some reviewers almost make us forget that string theory was supposed to be science, not religion. Get a load of this review of string theorist Brian Greene’s new book, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Penguin 2020) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 22, 2020
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Design inference
Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz: A motorhead looks at design in nature

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February 22, 2020
Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz: I’m sure if Behe had asked any of the mechanics there at the garage, what they thought about the neoDarwinian hypothesis that complex machinery can be produced by random processes, they would have answered that such an idea is extremely silly, if not right out ludicrous. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 21, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Eric Holloway: A philosopher explains why thinking matter is impossible

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February 21, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Holloway: Richard Johns's' argument is deeper version of Captain Kirk’s scheme to defeat enemy robots in I, Mudd, a 1967 episode of Star Trek. Kirk posed a paradox that led to circuit meltdown. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Michael Egnor: Why the mind cannot just emerge from the brain

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February 20, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Egnor: Thoughts have emotional states; matter doesn’t have emotional states, just matter. So it’s not clear that you can get an emergent property when there is no connection whatsoever between that property and the thing it supposedly emerges from. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
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Epigenetics
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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New layer of complexity of the month: Epitranscriptomics

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February 20, 2020
Epigenetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Layers on layers, systems on systems. Puts one in mind of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond, doesn’t it? Legacy science media should ramp up those Pond graphics. And keep the speculation about random events accidentally producing life coming. Speculate HARDER! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Mike Egnor offers to help Darwinist PZ Myers tell boys from girls

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February 20, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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For a person who believes so strongly in the power of natural selection, yes, how the genes get together would be a good thing to know. Myers recently asserted that when he meets people, he infers nothing about their sexual identity. Egnor responds to the general question and the particular one in two parts. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
Categories
'Junk DNA'
Darwinism
Evolution
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Yes, genes from nowhere ARE an “evolutionary problem.”

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February 20, 2020
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Evolution, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Glad we are talking about this… No need to believe us (though we did warn you). What's this about “rampant” order in the genome? “Rampant” is a word we associate with disease; it’s not a word we commonly associate with “order.” On the other hand, an order that frustrates the outworkings of Darwinian evolution in favor of an orderly system that produces needed innovations must seem a lot like a disease to some. ;) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Genetics
Human evolution
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Expert contra Dawkins, why eugenics wouldn’t really work

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February 19, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Human evolution
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David Curtis: We can now measure genetic potential directly from genetic markers and what we know from this is that these genetic predictors perform extremely badly. We can also tell that there are many important, very rare genetic variants which we will never be able to identify. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Harvard astronomer is back: Radio bursts could be aliens

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February 19, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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The reader who sent this tip notes, “Consider me skeptical but it’s interesting that design inferences are fine so long as it’s just aliens…” Actually, reader, some science personalities will believe darn near anything about anything as long as it IS aliens. Read More ›