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Denyse O'Leary
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July 28, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Apes and humans: How did science get so detached from reality?

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July 28, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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We’re not “one” with chimpanzees. The wall has not “been breached.” So far as anyone can tell, it is not even breachable. Nobody thinks chimpanzees are the same as humans except a few researchers who mayhave spent too long in the bush. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 28, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience

Winston Ewert explains why the mind is not a computer

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July 28, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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"An abstract mathematical device cannot experience qualia or consciousness. If they could, we would expect mathematical formulas like the quadratic formula or the area of a sphere to experience consciousness. But that seems absurd, so we must conclude that a computer cannot exhibit consciousness. Put another way, consciousness is not a form of computation." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 27, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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Forty years ago, Douglas Hofstadter was sure a materialist explanation of the brain would work…

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July 27, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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"There is, quite simply, no mechanical explanation of how the human mind has emerged from brawling chimpanzees over the course of millions of years of evolution." That keeps happening with materialist theories. We thought their hat had way more rabbits. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 27, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
Psychology
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Darwinian Jerry Coyne makes a good point about the social science hoaxes

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July 27, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
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The distinction is that low-quality papers might happen to fall through the cracks now and then and a cherry picker could gin up an indictment of a whole field unjustly. BUT when a number of hoax papers get accepted by various journals, that points to deeper systemic rot. Especially when the social science profs are enraged rather than ashamed Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Psychology
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Portland U prof who hoaxed social science journals to prove a point is punished

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July 26, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Psychology
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The rap is “research misconduct,” of all things. Oh and get this: “An academic journal is continuing to sell a viral article on “rape culture” and “queer performativity” in Portland dog parks despite expressing concerns about the veracity of the research. Veracity? It was a genuine hoax, that’s what kind of veracity it had. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Plants
stasis
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Researchers: Photosynthesis may be a billion years older than thought … But WAIT!

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July 26, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
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“Dr Cardona also suggests that this might mean oxygenic photosynthesis was not the product of a billion years of evolution from anoxygenic photosynthesis, but could have been a trait that evolved much sooner, if not first.” So when did the billions of years of Darwinian evolution that “gradually evolved” photosynthesis happen? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
science education

National Science Teachers group calls security over questioning Darwin

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July 26, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
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Okay, but then Suzan Mazur, author of Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology, should be invited to speak. She would probably give a great rundown on the various streams of non-Darwinian (and some explicitly contra-Darwinian) research that doesn’t address any faith issues. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
stasis
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They didn’t find the parenting switch…

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July 25, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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They didn’t find anything like a “parenting switch” that applied across frog and mouse species, they noted. But parenting behavior, however caused, may be very much older that we used to think (the rise of amphibians about 360 million years ago?). And yet many later life forms don’t care for their offspring. The more evolution becomes a history, the more it features puzzling complexities that can't be resolved by a fatuous appeal to an "ism". Read More ›