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Darwinism

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 19, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Why is there no consensus on evolution?

News
September 19, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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The main reason there isn’t a consensus is surely that anything like a consensus would create the risk of falsification. The vaguer a theory is, the less falsifiable it is.A theory like Darwinism is grand and leads to all kinds of dramatic arts and culture stuff but remains too vague to be proven wrong or proven much of anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 13, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At Medium: On the “Impending cancellation of Darwin”

News
September 13, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Essentially, Noah Carl is forcing the biology establishment to admit that they can’t impugn Darwin for his racism because he’s their religion. All those other guys can just be trashed. But not Darwin. Not for anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 12, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Flap over use of term “intelligent design” in PNAS paper

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September 12, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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It’s possible that what Phillips means by “positive Darwinian selection” is random selection that looks a lot like design. The sin is in actually using words that imply that that IS what it looks like. Just when it looks like they've hammered everything into submission, another bulge appears. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 8, 2020
Categories
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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At Aeon: As a discipline, origin of life is “World’s most theoretically fertile dead end”

News
September 8, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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The author, a science writer, keeps orbiting the topic of moving beyond Darwin. Her survey of the scene suggests that researchers are moving beyond Darwin in a variety of different directions. Not clear how they will all meet up… Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 7, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
language
Mind
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Where Wallace can shed light and Darwin can’t

News
September 7, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
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From ENST: ... how did humans by means of natural selection alone develop language and sophisticated verbal communication? The answer: we didn’t. It was a product inherent in us, what Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s partner and challenger, said it was all along, an intrinsic part of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 6, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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Britain’s Natural History Museum is feeling the heat over Darwin’s racism

News
September 6, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Some of us remember fifteen years ago when anyone who brought up Darwin’s racism was informed, superciliously, by Darwinists that only a creationist would raise such an issue, as if there were nothing to be appalled by. One is tempted to say, suck it up. But that’s not a solution. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 5, 2020
Categories
Books of interest
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Michael Flannery’s book on Alfred Russel Wallace has been revised and updated

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September 5, 2020
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Wallace, as Darwin’s co-theorist, disappeared because he was not useful to the cause of naturalism. We’ll try to help make sure he doesn’t disappear again. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 3, 2020
Categories
Darwinism
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Paper: Paradigm shift needed in understanding evolution of complex animals

News
September 3, 2020
Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Paper: “Horizontal gene transfer and mating between diverged lineages blur species boundaries and challenge the reconstruction of evolutionary histories of species and their genomes.” A friend writes to ask, “If we don't have common descent, and we don't have natural selection, why do we still call it evolution?” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 29, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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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
Date
August 26, 2020
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Convergent evolution
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Darwin skeptic focuses on the repeated evolution of the camera eye

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August 26, 2020
Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Shedinger: But how could a similar series of mutations of the sort necessary to produce similarly structured eyes in different lineages occur so many times independently if the mutations are randomly produced? Read More ›