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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
language
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Language is much more complex than once thought

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October 3, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, language
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Researcher: Our brains process language with astonishing speed and 'immediacy', in a dynamic network of interacting brain areas. All the relevant information becomes available immediately, as we start combining the meanings of individual words, unifying the different sources of information. To speed up this process, our brain actively predicts what is coming next (for instance, we might expect 'newspaper' to follow 'the editor of the ...'). Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: The Golden Ratio is found in human skulls but not other animal skulls

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October 3, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Researchers: "The other mammals we surveyed actually have unique ratios that approach the Golden Ratio with increased species sophistication," says Rafael Tamargo, M.D., professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "We believe that this finding may have important anthropological and evolutionary implications." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 3, 2019
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Cosmology
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Are the “redundant” particles of the universe evidence of fine-tuning?

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October 3, 2019
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon: Despite McMaster U. thinking this odd, and believing (hoping?) for a failure of the Standard Model, I see this as a necessary means of storing the information in the hot Big Bang, and demonstrating the ultimate fine-tuning of the cosmos. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2019
Categories
Cell biology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics

Cells’ feedback circuitry is all in the math

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October 2, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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At Quanta: “What math and engineering and biology have in common, at least modern engineering, is enormous hidden complexity,” Doyle said. Take, for example, a cellphone. It seems simple to operate, but underneath, many layers of control circuits are built atop one another. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 2, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Physics
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Does the electron “know” of an impending collision?

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October 2, 2019
Intelligent Design, Physics
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Researcher: The electron not only receives the expected momentum, but additionally one third of the photon momentum that actually should have gone to the atom nucleus. The sail, (electron), of the boat, (nucleus), therefore "knows" of the impending accident, (collision from the photon), before the cords tear and steals a bit of the boat's (nucleus's) momentum. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 1, 2019
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Academic Freedom
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Media
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What? David Berlinski and Gunter Bechly reply to Jerry Coyne … at Quillette?

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October 1, 2019
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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It would be fun to discuss the history of life for once without the dead hand of Darwin overruling all. From the looks of things, it may also be possible now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 30, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
Religion
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Karsten Pultz: The perils of talking about ID He wonders, should he give up?

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September 30, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, Religion
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I am seriously considering abandoning giving ID-talks in Christian settings, as it seems completely purposeless and because I find it exhausting, depressing and frustrating. While atheists and theistic evolutionists reject ID because they consider it creationism, the creationists reject ID because it is not creationism Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 30, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Re Jeffrey Epstein: Let’s not complicate the issues

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September 30, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Epstein wasn’t even a scientist. It wasn’t like trying to figure out how to deal with a Nazi who has a cure for cancer. Don’t let the people who are implicated invoke high and difficult questions to cloud over plain old wrongdoing. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 29, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Fields medalist says math really exists

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September 29, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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So okay, if math really exists, it undermines a great deal of the nonsense barked about consciousness as an evolved illusion. That is, if consciousness enables us to apprehend what really exists, there is good reason for believing that consciousness itself exists Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 29, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Psychology
Religion
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Discredited paper claiming that religious children are less generous is still cited in media

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September 29, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Psychology, Religion
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We love it. “Correction mechanisms in science can sometimes work slowly… ” Why does that remind us of “Nature has retracted a major oceans warning paper, after ten months of mass freakouts? The suspicion raised—and it is not unreasonable—is that the harm that wrong information does is useful to some parties. It’s almost like we sense the retraction coming conveniently after the damage is done. Read More ›