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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2022
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Cambrian explosion
Ediacaran
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Ediacaran explosion? There were complex ecosystems before the Cambrian

News
May 17, 2022
Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design
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One can claim that the Cambrian explosion was nothing new only at the risk of shortening the time to establish complex ecologies, which should begin to create doubt about random processes in an active mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Can largely rearranged genomes explain why octopuses are smart?

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May 17, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Takehome: It’s still not clear just how intelligence develops in a life form. The relationship between massive genome rearrangement and very high intelligence in an invertebrate remains unclear but it is a promising research avenue. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 16, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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At Mind Matters News: Claim: Honeybees, “like humans” can tell odd vs. even numbers

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May 16, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Bees are not six-legged humans. They are incorporating the mathematical structure of the universe into their survival strategies. The researchers mainly demonstrated that we can use operant conditioning on bees. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 16, 2022
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Cell biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Eukaryotes got started from a merger between bacteria and archaea, without oxygen

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May 16, 2022
Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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On the whole, it might be easier to conclude that the timing is somewhat off than that complex life started without oxygen. But symbiosis is an intriguing theory nonetheless. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 15, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Physics
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At Nautilus, a science writer muses on efforts to grapple with time — the universe’s odd dimension

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May 15, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physics
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Annaka Harris: "I think the flow of time is not part of the fundamental structure of reality,” theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli tells me. He is currently working on a theory of quantum gravity in which the variable of time plays no part." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 15, 2022
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Biology
Culture
Intelligent Design
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Michael Egnor muses on some shaky arguments for abortion

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May 15, 2022
Biology, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Egnor: "if the fetus is a part of the mother’s body, then all pregnant women are chromosomal mosaics. That is, they are organisms that have two sets of genomes. Chromosome mosaicism is a rare disorder and is not synonymous with pregnancy." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 15, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Studies of co-evolution biased toward “striking and exaggerated phenotypes”, researchers say

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May 15, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The authors seem to suspect that “the widespread impression that coevolution is a rare and quirky sideshow to the day-to-day grind of ecology and evolution” is wrong and that new tools for uncovering it will show it to be more common. Co-evolution must require a fair amount of cooperation between utterly different life forms. If natural selection is the model, one failure would end a multi-stage process. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 14, 2022
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Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Among 5000 known exoplanets, there are some really strange ones

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May 14, 2022
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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To sum up, whatever we see or read about planets in science fiction, something out there is likely stranger still. It will be most interesting to see how many of the more conventional exoplanets have life and if there is in fact a reliable formula for predicting it. Those who claim that Earth is just an ordinary planet are certainly wrong — but is Earth unique? The universe is fine-tuned, as is Earth, and that would be an argument for life on exoplanets. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 14, 2022
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Books of interest
Fine tuning
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems to have come together to produce humans

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May 14, 2022
Books of interest, Fine tuning, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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But didn’t Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) say, “The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” The idea isn’t new; there’s just much more evidence for it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 14, 2022
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extinction
Intelligent Design
speciation
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“Lost” coral species found “inside” another species

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May 14, 2022
extinction, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Of course, the story raises the question of just how important saving "species" (see speciation) is. A shift in an ecology can be critical but the disappearance, reappearance, or brand new development of a hard-to-distinguish species may not have much environment impact. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 13, 2022
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Cells organize themselves in our organs by increasing in volume when tissues bend

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May 13, 2022
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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“The fact that this increase in volume is staggered in time and transient also shows that it is an active and living system,” adds a researcher. Once again, we are expected to believe that such a system can just develop in a gradual Darwinian fashion. Read More ›