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Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 29, 2011

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Culture, Epigenetics, News}

Epigenetics: Poverty can lead to later obesity?

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October 29, 2011

Culture, Epigenetics, News}

"Adults who grew up in poverty show changes in the "programming" of their DNA that may be linked to health problems such as obesity and autoimmune diseases, ..." Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 29, 2011

Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, News}

New film on the Scopes trial

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October 29, 2011

Culture, Darwinism, News}

The big misrepresentation, which we hope the film will correct, was that Darwinism in those days had anything to do with science; it was actually about eugenics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 29, 2011

Categorized
Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News}

Dawkins, asked to address an obvious point, flubs it

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October 29, 2011

Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News}

The point I put to Dawkins was that the USA was simultaneously by-far the most dominant scientific nation in the world (I knew this from various scientometic studies I was doing at the time) and by-far the most religious (Christian) nation in the world. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 28, 2011

Categorized
Culture, News, Science}

Science stories: Could you put a cigarette paper between credibility and plausibility?

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October 28, 2011

Culture, News, Science}

By the way, someone at the Philly Inquirer thinks you are spanking her if you doubt. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 28, 2011

Categorized
Atheism, Culture, News}

UK: William Lane Craig vs. Peter Millican

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October 28, 2011

Atheism, Culture, News}

Here. With summary and notes. Tax TV is for losers.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 27, 2011

Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, News}

Reb Moshe: Dawkins is chicken … which we all knew, but he says it better.

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October 27, 2011

Culture, Darwinism, News}

"Not even a hater of religion like Christopher Hitchens (who did debate Craig) would ever dream of accusing Craig of advocating gratuitous violence against non-believers and certainly not genocide." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 26, 2011

Categorized
Culture, Evolution, News}

Are Darwin’s American tribe having a collective nutout or what?

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October 26, 2011

Culture, Evolution, News}

his is about some film about dinosaurs in heaven, which nobody can afford to buy and isn’t on line. Maybe they made a big mistake making it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 26, 2011

Categorized
Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, News}

Dawkins argues that Jesus would have been an atheist …

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October 26, 2011

Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, News}

... if he knew as much as Dawkins and his contemporaries. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 25, 2011

Categorized
Christian Darwinism, Culture, Intelligent Design, News}

Giberson and Stephens want American evangelicals to forsake their tradition for a rat’s nest of crackpot ideas.

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October 25, 2011

Christian Darwinism, Culture, Intelligent Design, News}

Giberson and Stephens don’t want evangelicals to forsake their tradition for a different religion. They want them to forsake it for a rat’s nest of crackpot ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 24, 2011

Categorized
Culture, News, Science}

Science life: Reality vs. what you can tell people

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October 24, 2011

Culture, News, Science}

Actually, the private sector isn’t great either. As PayPal’s Peter Thiel has pointed out, Big Pharma is wholesale liquidating research departments in an atmosphere where their patents are expiring and “Most proteins that drive disease processes are actually undruggable.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 23, 2011

Categorized
Christian Darwinism, Culture, News}

Remember that new Christian university group, Ratio Christi, that was unambiguously friendly to ID?

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October 23, 2011

Christian Darwinism, Culture, News}

Sounds like they mean it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 23, 2011

Categorized
Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News}

A contrarian view of Dawkins not debating Craig

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October 23, 2011

Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News}

In my view, Dawkins is totally wrong about evolution but he does have a certain integrity. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 23, 2011

Categorized
Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design}

Yanks put at man on the moon. But they’re really just anti-science rubes. Yeah, really …

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October 23, 2011

Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design}

Are there no more white feathers in England? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 22, 2011

Categorized
Culture, Engineering, Evolution, News}

Science historian George Dyson: Life is whatever you define it to be

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October 22, 2011

Culture, Engineering, Evolution, News}

The next step might be the end of distinct species and the beginning of a more symbiotic life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 22, 2011

Categorized
Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News}

Fellow atheist again derides Dawkins for refusing to debate Craig

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October 22, 2011

Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News}

"As a sceptic, I tend to agree with Dawkins's conclusion regarding the falsehood of theism, but the tactics deployed by him and the other New Atheists, it seems to me, are fundamentally ignoble " Read More ›