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Denyse O'Leary
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February 14, 2023
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Origin Of Life
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Paul Davies on the gap between life and non-life

Denyse O'Leary
February 14, 2023
Origin Of Life
A reader notes that Davies says at 37m30s: “What life makes is consistent with physics and chemistry, but is not dictated by physics and chemistry.” Well, by a process of elimination, doesn’t that leave information? Design? And how are things designed without intelligence? At this point, one can only say, Keep talking. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 13, 2023
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
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Rob Sheldon responds to Sabine Hossenfelder’s loss of faith in science

Denyse O'Leary
February 13, 2023
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Sabine says 40 years of lack of progress, with 40 years of wrong predictions is not normal, and we should not normalize it. (The field is losing graduate students, which means the end is nigh.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2023
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Fine tuning, Fine-timing
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Uploaded: By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2023
Fine tuning, Fine-timing
Hoover Institution: “Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Steven Meyer are three of the leading voices in science and academia on the case for an intelligent designer of the universe and everything in it (including us). Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Trust the Science! chronicles: The origin of COVID and Wuhan

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wade: Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2023
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Animal minds
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At Science News: Fish can recognize themselves in photos, thus may be self-aware

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2023
Animal minds
Cleaner wrasses may be self-aware, of course. But just as we would not conclude that a dog who flunks the mirror test is not self-aware, we should not conclude that the fish who passes it IS self-aware. We need to know what else the dog or the fish does that implies self-awareness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2023
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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What science media make of the 3 million year old tool assembly, recently found

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2023
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Some of us suspect that it is long past time someone shone a light on how these classifications of early humans are really created. How much is evidence and how much is underlying assumption? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2023
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extinction, Intelligent Design
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Killer whale mommies are not good DarwinMoms, it turns out

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2023
extinction, Intelligent Design
Group dynamics like this may be one reason that a species becomes critically endangered or goes extinct. Yes, human activities drive many extirpations/extinctions.* But others may be due to the adoption of behaviors that result in fewer than the needed number of offspring. Not easy to change. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2023
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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From Frontiers Science News: Neanderthals cooked and ate crabs too

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2023
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Well, that’d never do. We are all expected to be slack-jawed in amazement when what we might have expected - that is, if we didn’t buy into that Darwinian Ascent of Man stuff - turns out to be true. We are paying more for Darwinism than we might sometimes think. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2023
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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At Big Think: The weirdness of quantum mechanics forces scientists to confront philosophy

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2023
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
Marcelo Gleiser: Due to space, I will only mention one more epistemic interpretation, Quantum Bayesianism, or as it is now called, QBism. As the original name implies, QBism takes the role of an agent as central. It assumes that probabilities in quantum mechanics reflect the current state of the agent’s knowledge or beliefs about the world, as he or she makes bets about what will happen in the future. Read More ›