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Denyse O'Leary
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September 11, 2019
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Intelligent Design
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Why Thomas Huxley was wrong about monkeys, typing forever, producing Shakespeare

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September 11, 2019
Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Russ White: It is not enough, as Turing proposed, to trick a person into thinking a computer is a person. Somewhere there must be a person who intends this result. If the artificial intelligence cannot provide that intent, then the person who designs the system must. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 10, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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How are science journals changing?

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September 10, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Would these newer approaches to science publishing make it easier to discuss difficult topics? For example, if Gunter Bechly could have been evaluated only on his work and not on the fact that he switched sides in the Darwin wars, wouldn’t that be better for everyone but Darwin trolls? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 10, 2019
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
Physics
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Sean Carroll: Physicists don’t even want to understand quantum mechanics

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September 10, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
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Carroll wants a multiverse out of any new findings, one suspects. One question many might have is, apart from the lack of a multiverse, how bad is the current situation in physics? What, besides that, is going wrong? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 9, 2019
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Cosmology
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Physics
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How scientists slowly convert to the idea that the universe itself is alive

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September 9, 2019
Cosmology, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Remember as you read about Gaia and “life’s ability to shape the universe,” that this op-ed appeared in Scientific American, not Mystic Waters News. Listen carefully and, somewhere in the background, you will hear Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne crooning, “I fought Woo-WOO and woo-WOO won.” Some North American readers will recognize a musical snatch here. In fairness, we warned them. ID isn’t the big enemy. ID proposes to reform evolution studies along real-world lines, not to dump the canon of science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 7, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the science world: Fallout

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September 7, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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In the wake of Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison, his predilection for funding science organizations as a virtuous cover make for reading worthy of an airport potboiler. But from some of this, there may be something to be learned. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 7, 2019
Categories
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
science education

Do genes that jump shake the tree of life?

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September 7, 2019
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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Yes,but what hope is there that textbooks could start teaching reality when even the right to question the Darwinian [sheet] is still a big controversy in many places? Could science writers like Jabr and others agree that it is time to make textbooks about evolution sound like the reality and not like the 1925 Monkey Trial revisited? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 6, 2019
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Creationism
Culture
Darwinism
Education
Intelligent Design
science education
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Demand for a ban on teaching creationism in Welsh schools

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September 6, 2019
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design, science education
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Tradejah! Let’s have a ban on teaching Darwinism too. Oh wait — is that what’s supposed to be introduced early and often, because the “Wales Humanists coordinator” and “Humanists UK” want it? Darwinism is an obvious intrusion of religion into the school system. A different religion from what many people follow, but still a religion. Otherwise, why would humanists care so much? Read More ›