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Denyse O'Leary
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August 29, 2020
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One secret of Darwinian just-so stories is boundless imagination

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August 29, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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David Coppedge: Nothing is ever settled in Darwinian history. That’s part of the genius of Darwin’s strategy for secular science: it provided job security for storytellers. Since human imagination is boundless, Darwin put it to work overcoming the challenges of empirical proof. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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Despite everything, some still carry on about “denialism”

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August 24, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Hard on the heels of the news that a Harvard astronomer still thinks that long-vanished space rock Oumuamua is “alien tech,” we see—direct from Boilerplate Central—a screed by a Harvard science historian at Scientific American about “denialism.” She has a theory: Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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Science
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CS Lewis, COVID-19, and scientism

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August 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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"Seventy-five years ago, C.S. Lewis published his novel ”That Hideous Strength,” which explored the dangers of government in the name of science. What relevance does Lewis's advice on the promise and perils of science-based public policy have in the age of COVID-19 and beyond? " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 19, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Naturalism
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Arithmetic as racism: A teacher’s reflections on the progressive war on math

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August 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
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Mahlberg: English philosopher G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) saw the early signs of the West’s abandonment of objective truth, and in a cheeky tone, he warned: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts on the recent challenge to Darwin’s sexual selection

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August 13, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: Finally, somebody is saying what ID has claimed for decades--Darwin has no clothes. It's just-so stories stacked on just-so stories with the very thinnest of experimental evidence. And that's the only thing I admire about post-modernists. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
language
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Philosophy
Science
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Biologists can’t stop using purpose-driven language because life really is designed

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August 13, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
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Crawford: I conclude that, since teleological concepts cannot be abstracted away from biological explanations without loss of meaning and explanatory power, life is inherently teleological. It is the teleological character of life which makes it a unique phenomenon requiring a unique discipline of study distinct from physics or chemistry. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 9, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Religion
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Popular Darwinism as a Gnostic religion

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August 9, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Burfeind: Social Gospel preachers gained traction because they rallied earlier communitarian revivalism in opposition to voguish Social Darwinism… Their argument wasn’t against the Theory of Evolution per se… They in essence were saying, "Evolution is on our side.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 6, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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One of Boghossian’s hoaxers started the Woke on the 2 plus 2 equals five drive?

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August 6, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Meanwhile, Lindsay has a blog keeping track of Woke folk and other unfunny crazies, where he says he himself might have started off the 2 + 2 = 5 crazy, intending only to explain to someone how the Woke think. Read More ›