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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2022
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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E. O. Wilson and racism: The smoking gun is found

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February 18, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Some have dismissed the findings but others say they fit a pattern. From Schulson's story: “I don’t really care that Wilson had racist ideas, because I know pretty much all of the people that I dealt with, when I was coming up through the science system, had racist ideas,” said [evolutionary biologist Joseph] Graves, who in 1988 became the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. “Wilson was just one of many.” Oh. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2022
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
specified complexity
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Here’s the webinar on topoisomerase, the complex ,specified “untangling” enzyme in our cells

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February 18, 2022
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, specified complexity
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Introduction: The carefully orchestrated untangling activity of topoisomerase II doesn’t happen by accident. This enzyme is a molecular machine that only works because its amino acid sequence is highly specified to provide a special shape and structure necessary for its function. In other words, topoisomerase enzymes contain high levels of complex and specified information—a hallmark of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Natural selection
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The Galapagos finches as fractured icons of Darwinian evolution

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February 17, 2022
Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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Wells: When the drought ended and the rains returned, however, food was plentiful, and the average beak size returned to normal. No net evolution had occurred. Nevertheless, “Darwin’s finches” found their way into most biology textbooks as evidence for evolution by natural selection. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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As 24 nonsense papers are retracted, Daily Sceptic asks, What happened to peer review?

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February 17, 2022
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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That’s what “Trust the Science” does. It enables a superstitious reverence for nonsense at best and corruption at worst. And only occasionally does anyone in charge need to pretend to reform anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Philosophy
Science
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When the Centers for Disease Control abandon science…

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February 17, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Prasad: "Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. This research is plagued with classic errors and biases, and does not support the press-released conclusions that often follow." After a while, the public will catch on. The reputation of science is not going to do well out of the “Trust the Science!” phase. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 16, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Wells: Why molecular phylogeny is a problem in evolution

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February 16, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Wells: If two sequences can be aligned in more than one way, then any comparison will depend heavily on what alignment the investigator chooses. And when many sequences are compared, as they are in molecular phylogenies, the problem becomes much worse. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 16, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: The remarkable things we’re learning about bird intelligence

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February 16, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Crows and chimpanzees are thought to have last had a common ancestor 300 million years ago. Bees are thought to have had a common ancestor with them 600 million years ago. But crows, chimpanzees, and bees are all much more closely related to life forms that have not attracted attention for their intelligence. Are we just missing their intelligence? Or perhaps the question of unusual intelligence in some birds and other life forms but not others is one of the fruitful mysteries of science that invites further study. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 16, 2022
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Evolution
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Horizontal gene transfer from invertebrates to snakes helps solve Australian snake mystery

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February 16, 2022
Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Just think of all the Darwinism that would have been thrown at this transition decades ago. If the account holds up, it’s another instance of a less neat but more accurate picture of the history of life. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 15, 2022
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Intelligent Design
theistic evolution
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A Muslim design advocate responds to efforts to “Islamize” Darwinism

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February 15, 2022
Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Muzzafar Iqbal: After one hundred and seventy years of sound and fury surrounding “Darwin’s dangerous idea”,[1] one would expect everything has been said by all sides and there is no further need to write on the subject. Yet, what Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) once said seems to hold true: “Truth, Sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”[2] “Such people”, for Samuel Johnson, were the skeptics of his time, but in our protean world, “such people” are people of faith who are keeping the Darwin industry afloat… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 13, 2022
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Convergent evolution
Intelligent Design
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Common ancestry: If the Khan Academy must front Darwinism, why use such unconvincing arguments?

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February 13, 2022
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Because of widespread convergent evolution, claims about common ancestry can’t be based on similarity of form alone — any more than we can assume that two people who look quite similar (body doubles) must be closely related. Life is more complex than that. Read More ›