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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2019
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Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: Our puny human brains can’t imagine alien life

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December 21, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Not true! We humans more or less invented the whole idea of aliens. Without us, they probably wouldn’t exist even as a story. Just think: There would be no market for ET tales, films, and trade goods except for us humans. Don’t believe me? Try to get clams or termites interested in ET and see what happens… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2019
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Genetics
Genomics
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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One of the biggest science stories of the last decade: The Descent of Man gets crowdsourced

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December 21, 2019
Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Those old Descent of Man charts were sometimes fun, showing a bacterium ending up as some poor slob hunched over a workstation. Some sort of moral was always pounded into us by these tales, usually not an uplifting one. But real history is always better and more interesting. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 20, 2019
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Mind
Naturalism
Philosophy
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Consciousness: Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci skates around the main problems

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December 20, 2019
Mind, Naturalism, Philosophy
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It’s time to revive dualism: “And lastly, Pigliucci insists, without offering evidence, that dualism is “antiscientific.” Dualism is a logical conclusion from our circumstances; we are beings of both mind and matter. And those who would refute dualism tend to involve themselves in stranger claims, as we have seen.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 19, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Homo erectus survived longer than thought

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December 19, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: “But the age does open up the opportunity that there could have been potential overlap with the Denisovans,” says Westaway. The Denisovans are known from a handful of remains, which have yielded DNA. They roamed Asia and interbred with the ancestors of people in China and South-East Asia. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 17, 2019
Categories
Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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At New Scientist: Human intelligence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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December 17, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A working definition of intelligence defeats us for the same reasons as a working definition of beauty defeats us. Once abstractions become instantiated, they are laden with particulars. That does NOT mean that the idea is without meaning. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 17, 2019
Categories
Atheism
Climate change
Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explains why new atheism was doomed to die young

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December 17, 2019
Atheism, Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Anyone who didn’t immediately accept all this new atheist rubbish as Big Insight was a moron, right? But Dr. Egnor goes on to warn that reason will not emerge victorious from a horse laugh at the declining new atheists’ expense. Read More ›