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Denyse O'Leary
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May 21, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
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Attack on Darwinism at AAAS’s flagship mag “Science” re racism and sexism

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May 21, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Let’s pass over the question of why Cool People never noticed that stuff about Charles Darwin for nearly a century and a half. Noticing now? Good. Then what does Agustín Fuentes suppose should replace Darwinism? A war on science? A war on math? A war on people who think getting right answers is a good thing? What's supposed to be the next step? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 19, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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New! Speakers/topics for the Linnean Society’s meeting on teleonomy vs. teleology, May 28 and 29 online

News
May 19, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Come to think of it, how come every life form avoids or flees predators but life as a whole is not supposed to show any sense of purpose? Um... Can we TALK about this? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 6, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
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Science
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National Academy of Sciences attempts to grapple with “misinformation” and “disinformation”

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May 6, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Well, re COVID-19, a good deal of that disinformation and misinformation was purveyed by authorities, scientific and political. Books have been written about that. It’s going to take a long time to come back from this and authoritarian posturing won’t help. It would just prove the cynics right. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 5, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
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Science
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Re design in nature: New AAAS head says… What? Follow the… evidence?

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May 5, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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Of course, Dr. Parikh may be forced to clarify and qualify, to make clear that Darwinism, however implausible in the light of new evidence, occupies a special position as the single greatest idea anyone ever had. But if he even put on the table the idea of following the evidence instead of the demand for assent, he can't just take it back with no one noticing. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 30, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Science
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Why has Nature started endorsing violent Woke politics?

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April 30, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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First response: Stuff it. Absolutely. Stuff it. Given the way governments goofed big time throughout the pandemic, doubt about vaccines is a reasonable reaction, if not a correct one. A recent poll shows that nearly half of the vaccine doubters are worried about side effects. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 28, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Media
Naturalism
Racism
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Genetic Literacy Project tackles Critical Race Theory

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April 28, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Racism
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The problem with Whittle’s long, thoughtful, and informative piece is that he seems determined to be reasonable and make sense. In the age of the war on math and the war on science, the Twitter mob is the new sanity and acting out is evidence of Virtue. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 28, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
language
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Why are statements about “evolution” so often just filler?

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April 28, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language
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Laszlo Bencze: "If you say, "Most people prefer vanilla ice cream," you've just made a trivial claim of no great significance. But if you say, "People have evolved to prefer vanilla ice cream," well now you've made an insightful and fascinating statement backed by years of scientific research, no doubt about it." Well, if they can’t have the cattle, they are going to insist on the Big Hat, right? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 27, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts on Richard Dawkins getting canceled by the American Humanist Association

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April 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: Dawkins was part of the cancel culture 30 years ago "Christianity is like smallpox only harder to eradicate". So the fact that the cancel culture turns on its own, is not surprising. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 27, 2021
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Planned Parenthood now denouncing Margaret Sanger — a bit late maybe

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April 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Cancel Culture is basically fascism, tweeted. But the way Darwinism and Social Darwinism sponsored racism — because in that scheme of things, someone always needs to be the lesser human — should have been dealt with a long time ago. There are certainly plenty of other reasons for doubting Darwin and denouncing Sanger today. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 19, 2021
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Books of interest
Cosmology
Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Physics
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String theory skeptic Peter Woit reflects on Stephen Hawking

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April 19, 2021
Books of interest, Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Physics
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Peter Woit on Hawking's 2010 The Grand Design, co-written with Leonard Mlodinow: " I wrote about this book in some detail here. Put bluntly, it was an atrocious rehash of the worst nonsense about M-theory and the string theory landscape, with an argument for atheism thrown in to get more public attention. This is the sort of thing that has done a huge amount of damage to both the public understanding of fundamental physics, and even to the field itself." Read More ›