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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2020
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The design of life, even in a rat’s whiskers

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January 31, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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As usual Darwin was creating a rhetorical fog. There is no conflict between design in nature and the operation of fixed laws of nature. Quite the opposite. The Euler spiral is a fixed law of the mathematics that helps hold our universe together, resulting in the design we see. There is no reason to believe that the rat went through hundreds of flopped, fatal designs for whiskers (natural selection acting on random mutation) before hitting on the Euler spiral. It was probably implicit from the beginning because the nature of reality in our universe would enact it. You can call this creationism if you want. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Podcast: Walter Bradley on the new, expanded edition of The Mystery of Life’s origin

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January 30, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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From ID the Future: On this episode of ID the Future, Robert J. Marks interviews Walter Bradley, co-author of the seminal 1984 ID book The Mystery of Life’s Origin, now being released in a revised and expanded edition with updates from multiple contributors discussing the progress (or lack of it) in origins science in the 35 years since the book’s original publication. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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Dark energy critics are outnumbered, we are told, and its defenders are digging in

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January 28, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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At Inside Science: "While most scientists still seem to believe that dark energy remains on solid ground, no one yet has any firm idea what it actually is." Maybe dark energy is cosmic consciousness? Don’t laugh before you read this: "Could information be—at long last—the missing dark matter?" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 27, 2020
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Intelligent Design
science education
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Brazil picks ID sympathizer as science boffin; science media henhouse in total flap

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January 27, 2020
Intelligent Design, science education
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There is no discussion of the guy’s admin skills or anything else that would be directly relevant to his new position. One thing the anti-Neto noise will do is make a great many Brazilians and others aware of ID who weren’t before. Read More ›