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Denyse O'Leary
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May 14, 2019
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Science philosopher attempts to repair split between science and philosophy

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May 14, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
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The main disadvantage of not acknowledging the philosophy from which we proceed is that we assume it to be “the correct view of all right-thinking people.” That’s almost a definition of narrow-mindedness. It’s worth considering that many Darwinians who can’t get with the times about problems in evolution may have precisely that problem: They have never asked themselves why they are attached to a picture of the world of life that does not appear to be correct or complete. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 13, 2019
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Darwinism
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Astonishing duplicity continues around Haeckel’s embryos

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May 13, 2019
Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design, Science
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So stuff that isn’t true provides an “excellent foundation” and “compelling proof of the theory of common descent?”Wow. What a way to make people who never doubted common descent before start to do so…After all, one can only assume that an accurate presentation would not have supported the theory. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 12, 2019
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Evolution
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Colin Patterson: Can you tell me anything about evolution that is true?

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May 12, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Further to the story we noted last night, that possibly one-third of biologists now question Darwinism, this might be a good time to bring up Colin Patterson (1933-1998) again. He was a senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History and he offered an awkward question to colleagues one day: “Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that is true?” He began to sense something amiss over forty years ago and this is the audio and transcript of a lecture he gave before the Systematics Discussion Group at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City in 1981: (two parts, transcript follows, courtesy Access Research Network): The question is: Can Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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May 11, 2019
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Evolution
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Educating oneself away from science denial: Two true stories

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May 11, 2019
Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Our Danish friend Karsten Pultz, author of Exit Evolution, read the dramatic story of the flight from fundamentalism and responded by publishing his own account of how he escaped science denial. It is a somewhat different story Read More ›