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Denyse O'Leary
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April 7, 2022
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Trust the Science!: Woke edition

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April 7, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Summary: The people who carried on in the past about “science denial!” either 1) never really cared about science denial and were merely using it as a term of convenience or 2) they will rise to the occasion and do something about this stuff now. Any takers on a bet as to how that will go? If science is rescued at all, it will probably be rescued by its supposed enemies. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 5, 2022
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Animal minds
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Evolutionary psychologist argues that worms feel pain. But how?

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April 5, 2022
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Wait. Barash’s hypothesis overlooks the fact that suffering is more than an alarm system. An alarm could be going off in an empty building. If some invertebrates show much more self-awareness than expected, it hardly follows that all do. We risk impeding humane reforms if we cast the net too widely. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 5, 2022
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Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Peer review
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A surgeon protests scientific “gatekeeping”

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April 5, 2022
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
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Singer: "... a problem arises when some of those experts exert outsized influence over the opinions of other experts and thereby establish an orthodoxy enforced by a priesthood. If anyone, expert or otherwise, questions the orthodoxy, they commit heresy. The result is groupthink, which undermines the scientific process." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 5, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Science
Tree of life
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As evolutionary biologists slowly kill off Darwinism… hacking down the Tree of Life, even…

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April 5, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Science, Tree of life
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Species merging. Julie Berwald: What I didn’t know then was that, even as I ambivalently placed the overhead film on the projector, the concept of the tree of life had begun to wilt. Four decades on, it’s morphed entirely. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 5, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon: ID types are unfair to panspermia (the hypothesis that life came from space)

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April 5, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Sheldon: The answer to critics of panspermia, is that it is not intended as an origin of life (OOL) theory; rather, it answers the question "Where did life on Earth come from?" So indeed, it is erroneous to accuse panspermia advocates of “kicking the can down the road.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Religion
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Casey Luskin and Hank Hanegraff on Adam and Eve

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April 3, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion
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From the podcast intro: Hank and Dr. Luskin discuss why so many Christians are so quick to abandon the belief of a historical Adam and Eve, theistic evolution, evolutionary creationism, the argument that human genetic diversity can’t be explained by an original Adam and Eve and more. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 3, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Steve Meyer on whether extraterrestrials created life, as opposed to an intelligence outside nature

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April 3, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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"Yet those who propose panspermia have not explained, or even seriously grappled with, the problem of the origin of specified biological information." - Meyer No, but they don't need to, do they? Their seamless blend of science fiction and non-fiction would be rudely interrupted by needless complexities in the plot... Read More ›