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Denyse O'Leary
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April 3, 2022
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Casey Luskin and Hank Hanegraff on Adam and Eve

Denyse O'Leary
April 3, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion
From the podcast intro: Hank and Dr. Luskin discuss why so many Christians are so quick to abandon the belief of a historical Adam and Eve, theistic evolution, evolutionary creationism, the argument that human genetic diversity can’t be explained by an original Adam and Eve and more. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 30, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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The curious connection between Charles Darwin and John Brown

Denyse O'Leary
March 30, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Aeschliman: "After the Civil War and the death of Lincoln, 'those that stepped into the pathway marked by men like John Brown faltered and large numbers turned back,' Du Bois wrote. 'They said: He was a good man — even great, but he has no message for us today — he was a "belated [Protestant] Covenanter," an anachronism in the age of Darwin, one who gave his life to lift not only the unlifted but the unliftable.'" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 28, 2022
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Why punctuated equilibrium did not rescue modern evolutionary theory

Denyse O'Leary
March 28, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Re Stephen Jay Gould returning to traditional Darwinism: Didn’t E. O. Wilson try escaping the vice grip of Darwinism with “group selection” and then dramatically returning to full orthodoxy, leaving many dozens of supporters stranded? Complete academy acceptance is a powerful motivator… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 22, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review, Science
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At BMJ: Evidence based medicine running into many of the same problems as felled earlier reform movements

Denyse O'Leary
March 22, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review, Science
Op-ed: "Ironically, industry sponsored KOLs [key opinion leaders] appear to enjoy many of the advantages of academic freedom, supported as they are by their universities, the industry, and journal editors for expressing their views, even when those views are incongruent with the real evidence. While universities fail to correct misrepresentations of the science from such collaborations, critics of industry face rejections from journals, legal threats, and the potential destruction of their careers." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 21, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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At last someone is asking: Why are science reporters so credulous?

Denyse O'Leary
March 21, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Another way of putting it is that too many people are — at best — naive about government-led and government-funded science. And science writers can make a living out of avoiding realities and catering to their illusions while retaining a sense of impeccable righteousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 21, 2022
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A friend reminds us of what philosopher Michael Polanyi had to say about Darwinian evolution

Denyse O'Leary
March 21, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Doesn’t seem like Oxford liked him much for that. And then there’s what Gertrude Himmelfarb had to say at the same time… Hey, a walk through history when it is fun and instructive. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 20, 2022
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Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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Noted at Hillfaith: Atheists’ books show that God must exist

Denyse O'Leary
March 20, 2022
Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
They couldn't have written them without intelligent design of the universe. The blog also notes the impact of Steve Meyer's book, Return of the God Hypothesis, which seems to be giving the Darwinian materialist atheists some serious competition. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 20, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
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Francis Collins in the hot seat re COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
March 20, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
Readers may know Collins from his role promoting theistic evolution and/or some ethical issues around accusations of the use of premature babies as guinea pigs. More recently, his recent and unexpected resignation from the directorship of National Institutes of Health has created expected questions around the Institute’s handling of COVID-19. ... If Collins was confronted about that e-mail for the first time — after a year and a half — most U.S. media have way too cozy a relationship with science bureaucrats. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 17, 2022
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Neil Thomas on how Darwin’s Origin of Species came to be madly adored

Denyse O'Leary
March 17, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Darwinism was never very good at explaining the world of nature as such. It provided a fashionable basis for atheism in a world otherwise dominated by finely tuned laws. Thomas provides a fine tour of the nineteenth century in which that was just the thing many were looking for. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 15, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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What? Paper on human mutation admits to “fundamentally challenging” neo-Darwinism?

Denyse O'Leary
March 15, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
But Darwinism about human beings is the bread and butter of pop science media! If that’s under threat now, what will become of, for example, evolutionary psychology? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 13, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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New Zealand’s Royal Society grudgingly lets off two scientists who critiqued “Indigenous ways of knowing” as conventional science

Denyse O'Leary
March 13, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review
Jerry Coyne: As I said, the controversy over the hegemony of MM [Indigenous ways of knowing taught as science] in science continues, and if I know anything about New Zealand educational politics, MM will worm its way into science class. All the new RSNZ statement does is exculpate two scientists unfairly accused of misbehavior and harm for saying that MM, while worthy of being taught, is not coequal with modern science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 12, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Asked by science watchdog: Why is Lancet — famed medical journal — into anti-science advocacy?

Denyse O'Leary
March 12, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Sure, “anti-science” is a loaded term. So often, it just means inconvenient science or “unacceptable views” or revelations of ties that should definitely be investigated. Or whatever. In some cases, it can mean a preference for Wokeness over facts. We think that’s what American Council on Science and Health is referring to here. Read More ›