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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2021
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At the Scientist: The spider web as a “giant engineered ear”

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December 8, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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As Dan Robitzki puts it, they “outsource” their hearing to the web (like the web was a microphone?) Quoted at The Scientist: “Evolutionarily speaking, spiders are just weird animals,” Jessica Petko, a Pennsylvania State University York biologist who didn’t work on the new study, writes in an email to The Scientist. “While it has been long known that spiders sense sound vibration with sensory hairs on their legs, this paper is the first to show that orb weaving spiders can amplify this sound by building specialized web structures.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2021
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Cosmology
Fine tuning
Physics
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Can gravitational waves help account for why there is more matter than antimatter?

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December 8, 2021
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Physics
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“not an electric charge, but some sort of charge”? Okay… At least we are still in the world of hard science here. One thing: They had better trademark the name Q-ball. If their idea takes off, they will be glad they did. Go Q-balls! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2021
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Books of interest
Intelligent Design
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At Claremont Review of Books: “The God Hypothesis should be considered as a possible explanation for our universe.”

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December 7, 2021
Books of interest, Intelligent Design
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Reviewer: Meyer argues that the materialist assumption now poses an obstruction to understanding, compelling scientists to embrace implausible and untestable hypotheses as a defense against the God hypothesis... But Gelernter and Nagel make a good case that religious zealotry, and a refusal to debate the facts honestly, now characterize Meyer’s opponents more than they do Meyer and his supporters. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2021
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Cambrian explosion
Intelligent Design
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Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact: 35 million years earlier than thought

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December 7, 2021
Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
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So they are complex and that much closer to the dawn of life. At ENST: In Nature News and Views, Andrej Ernst and Mark A. Wilson write, “Bryozoan fossils found at last in deposits from the Cambrian period.” They had been “conspicuously absent” till now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 7, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Philosophy
Science
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At Mind Matters News: Nautilus offers a primer on panpsychism

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December 7, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science
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"What’s really interesting about [Massimo Pigliucci’s anti-panpsychism] comments is that even a decade or so ago, his was an utterly conventional view. Now he feels he must qualify it by saying “But that’s just one perspective and one way to look at it.” It seems that fewer researchers today expect the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” to suddenly yield to a new research finding — a situation that leaves many looking with interest and sympathy at a non-naturalist approach like panpsychism." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 7, 2021
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Climate change
Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Proving that they are genuine “sceptics,” British group takes on the pieties of climate change

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December 7, 2021
Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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With a motto to live up to like “Question Everything. Stay Sane. Live Free,” they must sometimes tackle the Establishment’s fondest commitments. And the nonsense they skewer is practically surreal. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Media
Peer review
Science
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Retraction Watch co-founder on the lab leak theory re COVID

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December 6, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Peer review, Science
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Ivan Oransky: Many in the media, as well as some scientists, quickly labeled it a conspiracy theory, designed to shift focus away from the missteps of their own countries. But, like everyone else involved in the discussions about the lab leak theory, scientists have something at stake: If SARS-CoV-2 did escape from a lab, it could further shake trust in research, and threaten funding… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 6, 2021
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Casey Luskin on what ID is and how we should defend it

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December 6, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Luskin: Something is specified if it matches an independent pattern. There is no special, independent pattern to the shape of Mount Rainier. Its complexity alone is not enough to infer design. It matches a pattern — the faces of four famous Presidents. Read More ›