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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2019
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Darwinism
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More pop science fallout re Jeffrey Epstein: Stu Pivar and PZ Myers

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August 24, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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No, no, Pivar and Myers didn’t do anything except fall out—with litigation threatened. But there’s an Epstein connection in the story—as there seems to be to a lot of things Darwin these says. And, say what you want, that guy Epstein sure picked his targets. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Straw in the wind? Darwin’s random variation is discredited in a recent paper

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August 22, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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They propose “nonrandom variation”. Later: “Darwin's idea that variation is generated randomly has largely been taken for granted rather than tested, representing a fundamental gap in our understanding of evolution.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2019
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Intelligent Design
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And so now psychoanalyst Carl Jung was a racist too…

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August 22, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Darwinians have gone to such lengths to defend Darwin when, it is becoming clear, everybody who lived before Political Correctness was a racist. One interesting thing about the linked story about Jung (1875-1961) is the pushback it is getting from the combox. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 21, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Media
Philosophy
Science
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“Skeptical Inquirer” calls National Geographic book a “natural disaster”

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August 21, 2019
Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
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The main thing to see here is that the book is published by National Geographic, once a source you would not have expected to be backing this stuff. The real war on science is not doubts about Darwin. To the extent that so many people have allowed Darwinists to snooker them into believing that, they likely don’t know what to do now that seriously fact-challenged points of view can parade as virtue. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Jeffrey Shallit also holds forth on Yale’s David Gelernter

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August 20, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Shallit: "Gelernter is not a biologist and (to the best of my knowledge) has no advanced formal training in biology." We weren;t aware, at UD, that math prof Shallit had serious biology credentials either but perhaps one can dispense with them if one supports Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2019
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Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon: Don’t give up all ET hope due to recent exoplanet disappointment

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August 20, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: … in our own solar system, Saturn is far outside the "Goldilocks Zone" yet it has a moon, Enceladus, that is emitting steam jets filled with hydrocarbons. … The danger of being overly-quantitative is not just the overreliance on models, or the higher risk of failure, but rather the real probability that "certainty" blinds one from observing the actual phenomenon. Read More ›