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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Big Bang
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon on a claim that the Big Bang did not happen

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December 1, 2019
Big Bang, Intelligent Design
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We need to go back to Philip Johnson's insight 30 years ago. At that time the creationists were all attacking each other over local/global flood, the meaning of "yom", the historicity of Adam, etc, whereas the Darwinists had a united front--Darwin was a genius. What Johnson discovered, was that the Darwinists had a huge internal battle over nearly every assumption of their model, but politically were unified in their opposition to Creation. By putting his finger on their critical assumption of Methodological Naturalism, which was contrary to nature and to nature's laws, Johnson was able to unite the creationists behind this cause and turn the tables. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Science, miracles, and Benny Hinn

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December 1, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Bill Dembski's 2nd chapter of a book on miracles is now on line. One wonders whether scam vs. no-scam is even the right question in many cases. Perhaps what we should be asking is, how much of what is happening can be accounted for by the well-documented—and quite real— placebo effect? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 1, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Religion
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Biblical archeology gets a boost from AI

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December 1, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
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As with the Dead Sea Scrolls, when they did decipher it, using AI, they found it was the same Scriptural texts as elsewhere. Which reinforces the fact that ancient peoples were not in the habit of simply rewriting the Scriptures now and then according to taste. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2019
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extinction
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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At The Scientist: No, we did not kill off the Neanderthals but maybe we helped

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November 30, 2019
extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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If the Neanderthal woman was living and having kids with a non-Neanderthal man, she wasn’t living and having kids with a Neanderthal man. Perhaps, if non-Neanderthal men were more numerous, it was only a matter of time and only the usual amount of violence, rather than a big massacre. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Question for readers: In a world where horizontal gene transfer is an important force, what becomes of Dawkins’s Selfish Gene?

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November 30, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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The selfish gene is an entity driven by an unadmitted teleological force to replicate itself in offspring. But horizontal gene transfer—hardly taken seriously the day before yesterday—features genes that simply end up on a different string. Is a relentless force of selfishness driving them to do that? Or do they just drift and end up on that string? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 29, 2019
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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The bacterial flagellar hook as a universal joint

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November 29, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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A friend points out that the paper just describes the intricate machinery of the hook, adding to what we know, without any resort to Darwinspeak. It seems to be getting safer all the time to just not talk that way any more. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 29, 2019
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Cosmology
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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So then maybe we ARE privileged observers

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November 29, 2019
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Researcher: "Our analysis is data-driven but supports the theoretical proposal due to Christos Tsagas (University of Thessaloniki) that acceleration may be inferred when we are not Copernican observers, as is usually assumed, but are embedded in a local bulk flow shared by nearby galaxies, as is, indeed, observed. This is unexpected in the standard cosmological model, and the reason for such a flow remains unexplained. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 28, 2019
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Ediacaran
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Animal embryos evolved before animals

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November 28, 2019
Ediacaran, Intelligent Design
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Well, now that Zhu mentions it, hadn’t we better be sure that there are no adult stages before we make such dramatic claims? Otherwise, what we really have is another early Ediacaran complex animal which, while a marvellous find, is not the one Darwinians would be hoping for. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 27, 2019
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Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Talk about hope springing eternal: 2020 for our history-making alien life find?

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November 27, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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It would be marvellous to find aliens out there to talk to, even if they turned to be an awful bore. But there is something suspicious about these statistics. With no single alien ever found, they offer us no history to go by. Read More ›