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Denyse O'Leary
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November 18, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: The colorful squid does it via a “marvelous molecular machine”

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November 18, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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""We had no idea that the mechanism we would discover would turn out to be so remarkably complex yet contained and so elegantly integrated in one multifunctional molecule" Was that a shutter banging or the ghost of Darwin rattling in the night? Hard to tell these days. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 17, 2019
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Books of interest
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Nancy Pearcey: What Phillip Johnson’s Wedge of Truth made clear

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November 17, 2019
Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Pearcey: Shortly after Johnson finished his book, his forewarnings were confirmed by the appearance of a book titled The Natural History of Rape, which argued that, biologically speaking, rape is not a pathology; instead, it is an evolutionary strategy for maximizing reproductive success. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 17, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
theism
theistic evolution
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Jon Garvey (“Hump of the Camel”) weighs in on the late Phillip Johnson

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November 17, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theism, theistic evolution
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God can create ex nihilo. Claims like “God wouldn’t do it that way” are mere opinion. The question for a scientist ... is, what did he do? And once we are forced back on the evidence, the theistic evolutionists’ darling, Darwinism, comes more and more to be seen as the toad who is not turning into a prince when we finally get the princess to kiss him. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 17, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Natural selection cannot explain the origin of life on Earth

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November 17, 2019
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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But the idea continues to exist in the world of half-ideas, the world of “if only.” Ideas that might work as fiction but we want them to be fact. Let’s call it Darwin’s “warm little pond”: “"But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond… ” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2019
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Darwinism
Genetics
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
science education
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Bacteria harpoon DNA from their environment, to fight antibiotics

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November 15, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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Wait. What does this story remind us of? Oh yes, recently a writer at The Atlantic went so far as to express doubt about the claim of a Darwin-in-the-schools lobbyist that everyone needs to buy into their approach to evolution if we want to understand superbugs. Read More ›