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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 2, 2020
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Cambrian explosion
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Science News’s Top fossils in 2019 show a diminishing Darwin

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January 2, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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From 518 million years ago: The remains document the Cambrian explosion, a rapid flourishing of life-forms, and include many organisms never seen before — even at the most famous Cambrian fossil site, Canada’s Burgess Shale Carolyn Gramling, “Science News’ favorite fossils of 2019” at Science News So even more fossils just popped into existence, just like that. No wonder even Darwin had doubts. From 290 million to 280 million years ago: For such an ancient critter, O. pabsti — one of the earliest amniotes, a group that includes reptiles and mammals — had a surprisingly efficient gait Carolyn Gramling, “Science News’ favorite fossils of 2019” at Science News So the long, long Darwinian period when the creature just stumbled uncertainly Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 1, 2020
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Jerry Coyne is distressed by National Geographic going all “woo”

News
January 1, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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In general, National Geographic dances to Jerry Coyne’s tune where evolution is concerned and the decline he reports, if real, has continued during that same period. The only thing we really know is that the internet has drop kicked almost all magazines. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 27, 2019
Categories
Atheism
Books of interest
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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David Bentley Hart offers an honest assessment of Richard Dawkins’s new book

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December 27, 2019
Atheism, Books of interest, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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The book is Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide. Hart thinks Dawkins has finally found his authorial voice but you had better read the rest. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 27, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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Massimo Pigliucci: Feynman was wrong about truth and beauty in science

News
December 27, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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He starts out well but notice how Darwinism, flung into the works like an old shoe, undermines the topic completely. If beauty is really “in the eye of the beholder” full stop, there is really no such thing as beauty. If the “capacity for aesthetic appreciation” evolved “possibly involving natural selection,” then it is unrelated to the object and best understood in terms of how many children artists have. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 14, 2019
Categories
Books of interest
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design

Stock up on Darwin for the holidays! Okay, well…

News
December 14, 2019
Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Contrary to the reviewer’s complaint, the author is quite right to portray Darwin’s human evolution theme this way. The underlying assumption that evolution proved the right people to be superior has created a key difficulty in getting any serious criticism of Darwinism accepted. It made a thesis that seemed highly plausible to many Europeans irresistible. Put another way, the highly evolved human never seemed to look like Evander Holyfield, fitness notwithstanding. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 12, 2019
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Atheism
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Come to think of it, there is no necessary relationship between atheism and Darwinism

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December 12, 2019
Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Thinking about books recently, I recalled that philosophers Jerry Fodor (What Darwin Got Wrong (2010)) and Thomas Nagel Mind and Cosmos: : Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False are examples of intellectually serious philosophers who are no way Darwin groupies. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 9, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
speciation
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At Nautilus: Do butterflies challenge the meaning of “species”?

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December 9, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Yes, of course they do. But imagine anyone asking such a question years ago for any purpose except to show that it ain’t so: Stamp OUT Darwin Doubt!! was the permitted approach. But now we read doubt about Darwinian speciation in typical think mags. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 9, 2019
Categories
Darwinism
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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The larger lesson from the story of the Man With Two Fingerprints

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December 9, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Remember when DNA was Certain? When people were executed or spent life in prison on account of DNA evidence? “Your DNA is on it” was like Holy Writ. DNA was the guarantor of the Darwinian selfish gene. And now… The worst thing that ever happened to Darwinism was DNA mapping. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 8, 2019
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
theistic evolution
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Chance vs. Randomness: Another theological dance in Darwin’s defense?

News
December 8, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Pardon the suspicion but some of us remember sneery “science-splains” at theistic evolution sites as to how there is a huge difference between chance and randomness—which sounded exactly like some scuzz claiming that there is a huge difference between taking money to keep quiet about wrongdoing and a bribe. Read More ›