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Denyse O'Leary
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November 9, 2021
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Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: The intelligence birds and bees naturally have — and we don’t

Denyse O'Leary
November 9, 2021
Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Richard W. Stevens: You’re aiming to find your childhood friend’s home in a new city. A map helps; GPS is better. Accessing all that previously-acquired mapmakers’ knowledge, employing all of that satellite, radio and computing technology, you’ll probably (although not certainly) reach your goal. Could some “dumb bird” do any better? Way better, actually. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 4, 2021
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Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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New book focuses on animal intelligence as not product of pure randomness

Denyse O'Leary
November 4, 2021
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
"[H]ow did these embedded programs arise in the history of life? There’s the problem for evolutionists. “Specified complexity, irreducible complexity, and the Cambrian explosion are inexplicable from a Darwinian viewpoint,” comments Baylor University computer engineer and intelligent design theorist Robert J. Marks. “In this book, Cassell masterfully adds animal algorithms to the list.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 3, 2021
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Gunter Bechly on the discontinuous fossil record

Denyse O'Leary
November 3, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Bechly: “Darwin’s doubt” did not get smaller over time but bigger, and if he were still alive, he would likely agree that the evidence simply does not add up, since he was much more prudent than many of his modern followers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At The Times of London: “Charles Darwin will be next if his great defender is toppled”

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Huh? What? If Huxley (or Darwin) is cancelled, “the practice of science itself no longer matters.” Well, that’s true but for Cancel Culture, that’s a feature, not a bug. It shows their immense power, generally in the robes of victimhood. Has none of these people been paying attention to the war on math and the war on science? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 28, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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It begins at last… T. H. Huxley, Darwin’s bulldog, about to be Cancelled – other early Darwinists to get the chop soon?

Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
W. D. Hamilton, Ronald Fisher, and J. B. S. Haldane are also threatened. We never thought it would happen but it is happening… so fast. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 26, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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At Evolution News and Science Today: Why C. S. Lewis doubted the creative power of natural selection

Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
West: "according to Lewis, Darwin’s theory explains how a species can change over time by losing functional features it already has. Suffice to say, this is not the key thing the modern biological theory of evolution purports to explain." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 24, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
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Berkeley scientist and center director resigns over MIT’s deplatforming of exoplanet scientist

Denyse O'Leary
October 24, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
Note how little difference facts of science make in these matters — whether Abbot has anything to say that contributes to our knowledge does not matter of the Woke are displeased. Darwinism was the original Wokeness in science — immune to fact-based critique. The people who thought that that didn’t concern them are now formally wrong. It’s everywhere now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 23, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Science
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At Evolution News: Three stunners challenge traditional Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
October 23, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Science
At ENST: Scientists at Flinders University in Australia found that our DNA spreads up to a meter around us without even touching anything. We’re leaving breadcrumbs of genetic code everywhere we go! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Darwinism
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Hank Hanegraff interviews Neil Thomas – a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2021
Darwinism
From podcast info: As he studied the work of Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: “Beware! You have been fooled!” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 14, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Classifier of life forms Linnaeus gets the chop due to concerns about racism

Denyse O'Leary
October 14, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
The friend who sent this in wonders, will the Woke come for Darwin too? It’s a bit more complicated in that case. No one, after all, strikes a serious blow against science by attacking contemporary Darwinism. Darwinism is really more about atheism than about science — and the Woke are in a war on science, not on atheism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 14, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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A 2010 Oxford U Press book on “unintelligent design” seems so dated now

Denyse O'Leary
October 14, 2021
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Now that the very concept of “junk DNA” is being officially retired, this all seems pretty stale. Note: Well yes, there is still Nathan Lents and Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes: Still wrong about sinuses but still writing about them. Read More ›