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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 14, 2021
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Academic Freedom
Creationism
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Bob Jones University prez fires back at Swamidass re doxxing creationists

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March 14, 2021
Academic Freedom, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Prez Pettit: "BJU students regularly score above the 90th percentile on the Medical College Admission Test ..." But that’s just the problem, Steve. They can’t get your students on lack of competence so they have to engage in covert viewpoint discrimination. Swamidass is suggesting a means of proceeding along those lines. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 13, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
science education
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Non-Darwinian biology teachers need to be targeted for “professional development”

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March 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
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Note that the authors of the paper are quite clear that they want Brazilian scientists not just to embrace Darwinism whole hog but to give up their belief in God. So much for rot about “theistic evolution.” That’s for suckers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 12, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Gregory Chaitin on true randomness

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March 12, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Chaitin: You see, with the normal coin tosses, actually every possible finite sequence of heads and tails in a sense is equally random, because they were all generated by tossing a fair coin. But some of them, all heads has a lot of structure, all tails have a lot of structure, alternating heads and tails have a lot of structure. I was looking at something that ignored how the sequence is generated and just looked at it and said, is there structure here or isn’t there? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 7, 2021
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Atheism
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
theism
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Kurt Gödel was unhappy with atheism and finally he blasted one fashionable type to smithereens

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March 7, 2021
Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, theism
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More scandalous still, Gödel was not a Darwinist: “I believe that mechanism in biology is a prejudice of our time which will be disproved.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 4, 2021
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Academic Freedom
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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David Klinghoffer muses on the (almost) Cancelation of physicist Eric Hedin

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March 4, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Klinghoffer: Hedin's persecutor, Jerry Coyne, "was a prominent academic, enjoying maximum career safety at the University of Chicago. Let’s be honest: between the two, there was no contest. Coyne could move against Hedin without fear, and he did. On the other hand, Hedin’s career was on the line, and both knew it." Sounds like Darwinism as she is spoke. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 4, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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US Prez accuses Texas and Mississippi governors of “Neanderthal thinking”

News
March 4, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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How about New York governor Cuomo packing nursing homes with COVID patients, which resulted in thousands of deaths? Now that we have channelled Neanderthal man anyway, does he have an opinion on that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 3, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Granville Sewell: Why does Darwinism remain popular when new findings make it less plausible every day?

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March 3, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Sewell: Most non-scientists intuitively understand that explaining how plants and animals, and intelligent, conscious humans, could have arisen from a lifeless, barren planet is a very different and much more difficult problem than others solved by science. But most scientists are still confident that nothing could possibly be beyond the reach of their science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
theism
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Wintery Knight asks: Can one believe in both God and Darwinian evolution?

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February 28, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theism
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Matheson now blogs at (but, of course) Peaceful Science where he describes himself as a “secular humanist” (August 3, 2020). All of which raises a question: Do people embrace Darwinism and then lose their faith? Or is it more like this: Darwinism is a convenient and socially acceptable explanation for loss of faith, which may also have other roots? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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At Oscillations: Suzan Mazur wonders what’s got into Eugene Koonin and Dieter Braun

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February 25, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Readers may recall Eugene Koonin as not particularly a Darwinian. As of 2018, Dieter Braun was more ambivalent. But Mazur notes that something has changed. Is it some light they have seen or has someone warned them to be more submissive? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2021
Categories
Academic Freedom
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design

Eric Hedin, that Ball State physicist whose ID course was Cancelled, has a new book out

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February 24, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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The funny thing is that Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne , who spearheaded getting Hedin's course cancelled, is often heard wittering these days about people he approves of — or doesn’t disapprove of — getting Cancelled. And it’s not likely he will ever get the significance of the role he played in starting the ball rolling. Read More ›