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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Oldest human-like footprints are 2.5 million years older than the ones attributed to “Lucy”

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October 21, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Re footprints in Crete: “The tracks are almost 2.5 million years older than the tracks attributed to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) from Laetoli in Tanzania,” says study co-author Uwe Kirscher, an expert on paleogeography at the University of Tübingen, in a statement. [Crete?!] Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2021
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extinction
Intelligent Design
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New findings on the devolution of tuskless elephants

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October 21, 2021
extinction, Intelligent Design
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Why were two-thirds of the tuskless babies females? "They also suspected that the relevant gene was dominant – meaning that a female needs only one altered gene to become tuskless — and that when passed to male embryos, it may short-circuit their development." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 20, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: What can mapping the whole brain tell us about ourselves ?

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October 20, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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Researchers attempting to map the brain must contend with massive complexity at every level, as a report in Nature shows. The proposed whole brain map will shed light on many of these situations. If it doesn’t shed light on some of them, we are probably looking at a new frontier. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
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And now … Transposable elements (junk DNA) shape the evolution of mammalian development

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October 19, 2021
'Junk DNA'
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No wonder people are backing away from the Darwinian staple of junk DNA. We wonder, when will the pop science articles start to appear, claiming that junk DNA was never really an argument used by Darwinian evolutionists in support of their cause and that, in any event, they were right to use such an argument. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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Climate change
Exoplanets
Intelligent Design
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Here’s more on Canceled prof Dorian Abbot’s talk on climate and exoplanets — Thursday

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October 19, 2021
Climate change, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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Abbot: "Whether a planet could be habitable is determined primarily by the planet's climate. This lecture will address insights we've gained from studying Earth's climate and how those have been used to make predictions about which exoplanets might be habitable, and how astronomical observations indicate the possibility of new climatic regimes not found on modern Earth…" [The Woke are, of course, welcome to scream, assault passersby, and torch cars and buildings in the comfort of their own Zoom meeting at the same time.] Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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Big Bang
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Physicist Brian Miller reflects on claims that the universe had no beginning

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October 19, 2021
Big Bang
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Miller: Sutter asserts that Bento and Zalel’s article offers a credible response against the evidence for a cosmic beginning. Yet this claim is only based on what might be possible in the realm of the imagination. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Laszlo Bencze responds to the view that evil is the absence of good

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October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Bencze: I have found that all people, even diehard progressives,agree that there are some things that are prohibited. They might balk at homophobia. Surely that can’t be permitted? ... So, if not all things are permitted, then, logically speaking, god must exist. In this way the existence of evil points to god. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Naturalism
theism
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Egnor vs. Dillahunty: 11. Is evil in the world simply the absence of good?

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October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theism
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Egnor: "The Thomistic understanding of evil is that it’s an absence of good. It’s not a thing that exist independently in itself. It’s a deficit of goodness. God’s creation necessarily fall short of goodness because if he created something perfectly good, He would just be creating himself. " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 18, 2021
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Christian Darwinism
Intelligent Design
theistic evolution
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John West on the tragedy of Francis Collins’s model of science and faith

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October 18, 2021
Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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If Collins stands for “theistic evolution,” reading about it has made some of us feel better about atheistic evolution. At least the atheistic evolutionists don’t pretend that they think human beings have intrinsic value. You know where you are with them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 17, 2021
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Big Bang
Intelligent Design
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Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and Parallel Universes nonsense a response to Steve Meyer?

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October 17, 2021
Big Bang, Intelligent Design
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Now that Miller mentions it, several other anti-Big Bang tales have appeared recently. Perhaps the reason that all these stories seem extra-silly is that the authors are rattled. Read More ›