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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 10, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Media
science education
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Gunter Bechly on the media that teach nonsense about evolution

News
August 10, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, science education
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The media can’t really help teaching nonsense about evolution and they will definitely resist correction, putting it down to some dark creationist plot. That is because so much of it supports their worldview. Which may well reflect on their worldview. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 9, 2019
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Academic Freedom
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Nice to see Gunter Bechly’s name on a paper again

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August 9, 2019
Academic Freedom, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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It’s not even just heroes we want to see vindicated but ordinary joes and jills who can go about their business while saying, “I see plenty wrong with the dominant theory today.” Physicists are allowed that but biologists aren’t. That’s because Darwinism functions very much as a religion for Darwinians. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 8, 2019
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon on the chances of the tardigrades (water bears) surviving the recent moon crash

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August 8, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: Well, I do think that dormant tardigrades, which could survive for hundreds if not thousands of years in a "freeze-dried" state, can be revived when placed in water. If the spacecraft, Beresheet, had crashed with dormant tardigrades, then most definitely they are scattered about the surface of the Moon, waiting for their resurrection day in water. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 8, 2019
Categories
Animal minds
Darwinism
Intelligent Design

Researchers puzzle over a dolphin who adopted a baby melon-headed whale

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August 8, 2019
Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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People anxious to cram all animal behavior into a Darwinian mold neglect the fact that temperaments among animals differ greatly. If we observe animal behavior long enough, we will surely see many departures from what is supposed to happen according to the theory. The animal does not actually know the theory; she does what occurs to her at the time and her temperament is bound to play a role. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 8, 2019
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Physicists need courage to confront the Collider dilemma, says boson pioneer

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August 8, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Could the great age of particle physics be coming to an end? That is, not so much a crisis as the beginning of a long, slow decline? That happened to science in many former civilizations. There were high points and then somehow things slowed down. How would we know? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 7, 2019
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extinction
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: 50 million years needed to recover extinct NZ birds! No, alas,, it’s impossible

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August 7, 2019
extinction, Intelligent Design
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Apart from cloning, to get the exact same birds, we’d have to rent the multiverse (if it existed). And then we would have an infinite number of planets with islands like New Zealand, including these birds. Never mind one... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 7, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
science education
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What is National Center for Science Education (the Darwin in the schools lobby) doing now?

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August 7, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
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Well, an awful lot on climate change, for one thing. Wherever else the climate is changing, it is certainly changing around Darwinism. Perhaps this is a graceful exit for them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 6, 2019
Categories
Creationism
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
stasis
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Listen to the “symphony of genes” in animal evolution…

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August 6, 2019
Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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So if all this complexity got started in something like the twinkling of an eye, are we looking at an argument for creationism? Or what? What exactly is the source of all this very complex, very early information? Read More ›