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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Human evolution
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Scripture scholar John Oswalt weighs in critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam

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October 17, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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We are closing in on an important fact here: Craig’s Historical Adam is the true ancestor of the Historical Jesus. Now it all begins to make sense. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Darwinism
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Hank Hanegraff interviews Neil Thomas – a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin

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October 17, 2021
Darwinism
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From podcast info: As he studied the work of Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: “Beware! You have been fooled!” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 17, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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“Junk DNA” is expressed differently in chimps and humans — and makes a difference in brain types

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October 17, 2021
'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At GenEng and BioTech mag: "In a new study, stem cell scientists at the Lund University, Sweden, explore the role of non-coding regions of the genome—previously deemed to be functionless “junk” DNA—and find humans and chimpanzees use a part of their non-coding DNA in different ways. This they claim affects how and when the human brain develops." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 16, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
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Ethan Siegel: The multiverse (and another you) are “all but inevitable”

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October 16, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Essentially, Siegel, the person who has Big Problems with something as widely accepted as the Big Bang, is quite prepared to accept all this far out stuff. That is where the naturalist project is just now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 16, 2021
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Astronomy
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What’s the story with the strange signals from the galaxy’s center?

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October 16, 2021
Astronomy
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Astronomers: “The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.” (We will soon be in a better position to find out what it is because the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope will be commissioned within the decade.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 16, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Reptiles evolved, de-evolved, re-evolved teeth

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October 16, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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In short, when researchers actually looked at reptile tooth history, it was hardly a simple evolution tale at all. It seems as if there are plans that life forms can access, perhaps within their genomes. But how do they trigger the needed changes, as opposed to just going extinct? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 16, 2021
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Cosmology
Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser: The “Copernican Principle” isn’t science…

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October 16, 2021
Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Physics
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We’ve only begun to point huge telescopes at exoplanets. There are too many unknowns to be sure of our status, he thinks. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Tan and Stadler’s recent book tackles claims of life from the lab

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October 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Royal Truman: "The hype which accompanied the publication in 2010 of what they dubbed Synthia overlooked how nothing of relevance to support evolution was accomplished. In a nutshell, the DNA sequence of a living bacterium was duplicated synthetically, and then transferred into a living cell. This would be comparable to copying a program from one computer to a different one, and then giving the impression the entire system, including hardware and operating system, could have originated on its own." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution theorizing for solving a mystery

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October 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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At Big Think: “In order to truly appreciate Dr. Julius’ discovery, a bit of context may be in order. Unless you build up tolerance, eating spicy foods is painful. Peppers and wasabi give off a strange sensation that your mouth is on fire, and for the longest time researchers simply couldn’t figure out why this was the case. Failing to pinpoint any immediate benefits of this response, they speculated it must be the remnant of some distant evolutionary adaptation." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Finding re endangered snakes is the opposite of classic theory (plus some interesting snake evolution news)

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October 15, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
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A friend who knows the scene writes: First, their findings run counter to classic theory with respect to depression caused by inbreeding. Second, no beneficial mutations are discussed, only benign ones, and then deleterious mutations of varying degrees. Much as in Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Informatics
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: GWT: A leading consciousness theory depends on information theory

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October 15, 2021
Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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If information flow in the brain is “largely unconstrained” by anatomical wiring, it’s easy to understand why we sense that we have “minds” apart from our brains. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 14, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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Classifier of life forms Linnaeus gets the chop due to concerns about racism

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October 14, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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The friend who sent this in wonders, will the Woke come for Darwin too? It’s a bit more complicated in that case. No one, after all, strikes a serious blow against science by attacking contemporary Darwinism. Darwinism is really more about atheism than about science — and the Woke are in a war on science, not on atheism. Read More ›