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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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E. O. Wilson and racism: The smoking gun is found

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Some have dismissed the findings but others say they fit a pattern. From Schulson's story: “I don’t really care that Wilson had racist ideas, because I know pretty much all of the people that I dealt with, when I was coming up through the science system, had racist ideas,” said [evolutionary biologist Joseph] Graves, who in 1988 became the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. “Wilson was just one of many.” Oh. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2022
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Darwinism, Ecology, Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
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Epigenetics: Pollution effects persist for many generations in water fleas

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2022
Darwinism, Ecology, Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
Well, that’s revealing, isn’t it? The evolutionary biologist admits that epigenetics is controversial, not because it can’t be demonstrated (it can) but because it provides competition for “traditional Darwinian inheritance.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, rhetoric
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Darwinian evolution and apparently suboptimal design

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, rhetoric
Cornelius Hunter points out that the most powerful arguments for schoolbook Darwinism are theological in character: What God wouldn’t do, etc. And they also apply only to alternative viewpoints, not to core Darwinism itself. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 8, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Excerpt from Richard Weikart’s new book, Darwinian Racism

Denyse O'Leary
February 8, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Weikart: "An 18-year-old white nationalist, Eric Harris, donned a shirt emblazoned with “Natural Selection” before heading off to high school. For weeks he had been preparing a special event in honor of the Führer. Together with a co-conspirator, Dylan Klebold, he planted a bomb in the Columbine High School cafeteria." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 7, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Historian Richard Weikart helps talk show maven Whoopi Goldberg understand why the Holocaust WAS about race

Denyse O'Leary
February 7, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Weikart is not trying to Cancel Goldberg; rather, he thinks there are some things she (and perhaps most people) don’t clearly understand about the Holocaust. First, to the Nazis — whatever anyone else may think — it WAS about race. Weikart goes onto explain in considerable detail that the on-the-ground interpretation of Darwinism underlay this development. Read More ›
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February 1, 2022
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Darwinism, Evolution, Information, Intelligent Design, Natural selection

Everything is Coming Up “Non-Random”!

February 1, 2022
Darwinism, Evolution, Information, Intelligent Design, Natural selection

On January 12, 2022, Phys.Org had a PR on an article documenting “non-random” mutations found in wild tobacco plants, published by a team from UC Davis. Now, three weeks later (Feb 1, 2022), we have another paper, working with human populations in Africa, and which, according to a team from the University of Haifa, “surprisingly” turns up “non-random” mutations. From the PR on the first paper: The scientists found that the way DNA was wrapped around different types of proteins was a good predictor of whether a gene would mutate or not. “It means we can predict which genes are more likely to mutate than others and it gives us a good idea of what’s going on,” Weigel said. The Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Can animal behavior simply be transferred into the genome?

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Eric Cassell: I think it’s such a daunting task to try to explain how something is sophisticated as an algorithm, particularly a mathematical type of algorithm, could have evolved in the first place. It has to be in the genome somehow. And then that information that’s in the genome has to be encoded in a neural network when the brain develops, and then it all has to be run, as the animal is performing the behavior. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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How Newton’s model of mechanical universe paved the way for uncritical acceptance of Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
The thing about such models is that they receive a great deal of social support and a person who diligently enquires into the evidence, exposing defects, is treated with — at best — suspicion. Not a healthy situation for honest inquiry. Read More ›