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Darwinism

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 1, 2019
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Academic Freedom
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Darwinism
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What? David Berlinski and Gunter Bechly reply to Jerry Coyne … at Quillette?

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October 1, 2019
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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It would be fun to discuss the history of life for once without the dead hand of Darwin overruling all. From the looks of things, it may also be possible now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
Religion
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Karsten Pultz: The perils of talking about ID He wonders, should he give up?

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September 30, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, Religion
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I am seriously considering abandoning giving ID-talks in Christian settings, as it seems completely purposeless and because I find it exhausting, depressing and frustrating. While atheists and theistic evolutionists reject ID because they consider it creationism, the creationists reject ID because it is not creationism Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 29, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Michael Egnor: Did consciousness evolve to help us “find love”?

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September 29, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Egnor: How tight a link might we expect between reproductive success and the contemplation of truth? Not a lot, it would seem, if the experience of philosophy majors on the dating scene is any measure. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 23, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Bartlett: Can computers simply evolve greater intelligence, Avida-style?

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September 23, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The failure to do so is consistent with Bill Dembski’s notion of displacement. Put simply, to develop complex functional systems, you can shift design around but you can’t actually get rid of it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 21, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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David Gelernter in a more accustomed role… asking rude questions about Facebook’s $billions

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September 21, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Gelernter: But why is it [Facebook] so valuable? Because we have all given it our information. It just seems to us that if this information makes Facebook such a huge amount of money, why don’t we make some of the money… we, meaning the users? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 20, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism

Hybridization—long considered a “dead end”—may be key to rapid speciation

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September 20, 2019
Culture, Darwinism
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“And hybridization — long considered an evolutionary dead end — instead acts as a catalyst for combining old gene variants in new ways, fueling rapid diversification.” Surely, it was long considered a dead end because Darwinism was supposed to account for these changes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 19, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
science education

A cry from grievance culture: She never learned Darwinism in school

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September 19, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
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If Darwinists had been in charge of Khazan’s education, she would mainly have a bunch of stuff to unlearn. As it is, she can start with Suzan Mazur’s Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology and Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves. Steve Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt is good on the Cambrian explosion… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 17, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Another Darwinian mass shooting?

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September 17, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Maybe Darwinian naturalism can’t count as a motive in principle because it is Approved. That said, this story reminds some of us of two things: The Columbine massacre and Finnish massacre, where the shooters’ belief in Darwinism was even more explicit. And also the curious case of Eric Pianka. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 16, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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New: Another philosopher openly dumps Darwinism, cites its acceptance of deception

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September 16, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Budziszewski is onto something here. In a Darwinian universe, there is no reason not to lie to achieve a survival goal. In the traditional universe, classically assumed to exist by most human civilizations, morality is intrinsic to the nature of the conscious entities of the universe. Read More ›