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Denyse O'Leary
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December 31, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Will science media’s slow descent into the Woke crazy empower competition?

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December 31, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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In a still-free society, Wokeness will create a space for a new popular science magazine. Lots of Woke-weary folk who value evidence over ideology would likely support it. That magazine should allow evidence-based criticism of Darwinian theory — which is treated with considerable skepticism anyway once you get outside the venue of the people who blew up SciAm with their Wokeness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 29, 2021
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Ethics
Intelligent Design
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Michael Egnor at Mind Matters News: Political website’s Christmas gift to readers: promoting abortion

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December 29, 2021
Ethics, Intelligent Design
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Egnor: I do a fair amount of prenatal counseling. While I always tell the families the truth about their baby’s prognosis, most of the patients I evaluate are essentially normal babies who have prenatal ultrasound/MRI findings that show minor brain variants that don’t impact their lives. Even for children with serious diagnoses, the outlook is often much better than the abortion-happy medical profession tells families in crisis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 29, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Why is it claimed that the Neanderthals were “not fully human”?

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December 29, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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In a Smithsonian Magazine yearender offering seven new things we are thought to have learned about human evolution in 2021, we read: Modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa and eventually made it to every corner of the world. That is not news. However, we are still understanding how and when the earliest human migrations occurred. We also know that our ancestors interacted with other species of humans at the time, including Neanderthals, based on genetic evidence of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans alive today—an average of 1.9 percent in Europeans. Remains of some of the earliest humans in Europe were described this year by multiple teams, except they were not fully human. All three of the earliest Homo sapiens Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 28, 2021
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Atheism
Creationism
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
science education
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Jerry Coyne on the war on math, science, in New Zealand – and falling scores

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December 28, 2021
Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
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Darwinian evolutionary biologist Coyne doesn’t dispute teaching Indigenous beliefs in a cultural class. But he may be at a major disadvantage because - if many years of his blogging are any guide - he wants science taught as a branch of naturalist atheism. Thus, the question arises, why shouldn’t we teach naturalist atheism too as an outcropping of Western culture? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 28, 2021
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Are the brain cells in a dish that learned Pong conscious?

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December 28, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Eric Holloway: A couple other interesting results from the research. First, human-derived organoids always outperform mouse-derived organoids in terms of volley length. Second, even without negative feedback, when the paddle missed the pong ball, the organoids still learn to increase volley length. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 25, 2021
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Big Bang
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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At National Geographic: A million to one odds that the universe’s expansion mystery is a statistical fluke

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December 25, 2021
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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At NG: In other words, it’s looking even more likely that there’s some fundamental ingredient of the cosmos—or some unexpected effect of the known ingredients—that astronomers have yet to pin down. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 25, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Can giant ichthyosaur fossil shed light on whale development?

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December 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Really, the only connection is that youngorum is another life form that grew very large in a comparatively short period of time. Maybe a number of unrelated examples will point to a general rule but the story doesn’t shed light on the peculiar history of whales. Read More ›