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Denyse O'Leary
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March 25, 2021
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Animal minds
Darwinism
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Oldest (so far) cephalopods discovered at 522 million years old?

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March 25, 2021
Animal minds, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Wait a minute. Many cephalopods (octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) are considered very intelligent though it is unclear how they got to be so. So, not only is this another instance of stasis (complex life forms emerge early and remain complex) but there is a real possibility that a high level of intelligence emerged early. Assuming that any intelligence at all could originate via a Darwinian mechanism, early origin followed by stasis does not sound like a Darwinian program for intelligence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 21, 2021
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Darwinism
Evolution
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Grand Darwinian experiment with 10,000 generations of yeast proves that Mike Behe is right

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March 21, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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If the authors could have predicted adaptation through loss-of-function mutations, why didn’t they let high school textbook authors and pop science presenters in on the secret?: Michael Behe is right: Darwin devolves. Evolution is mostly about devolution. Does that maybe make sense in a universe where entropy is growing? But where does it leave Darwin? At the bus stop after the last bus has left? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 20, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A forthright admission of how the lamprey larvae change official vertebrate history

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March 20, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Lamprey paper first author: “Once fortified with historical inertia, just-so stories are difficult to interrogate.” Just-So stories in science are not just difficult to interrogate but risky! People fear the questioner Doubts the Narrative and That Is Not Allowed. The essay is charming and it is heartening to read someone in science who is prepared to let evidence, not Narrative, be the guide. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 11, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Lamprey larvae do NOT resemble the early animal “that all vertebrates evolved from”

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March 11, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The resemblance sounds like so nice and neat a Darwinian belief that few can have wanted, in these times, to subject it to scrutiny. But some people did. And it’s almost like they don’t mind rewriting the textbooks. It’s as if they don’t “trust science” or something. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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At Oscillations: Cytogeneticist Antonio Lima-de-Faria torches obscurantism in science in new book, Suzan Mazur reports

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March 3, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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He was an early non-Darwinian evolutionist (1988 is pretty early), mainly a structuralist. He continues to publish books at nearly 100 years of age. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 2, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Eric Holloway: Is AI the next stage of evolution?

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March 2, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Holloway: The complex organization of energy we humans see around us in our verdant fertile nest is enormously atypical. This fundamental law drives right through the heart of any technology, genetic or otherwise, that we might invent … Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2021
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Animal minds
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Does evolution help us understand why some species in the same genus are significantly smarter than others?

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February 17, 2021
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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One could simply say, “Evolving more intelligence helped the animal to survive.” The trouble with that explanation is, many free-roaming life forms would probably survive more readily if they were more intelligent. But they do not develop greater intelligence on that account. There must be more to the story. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 15, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Claims for random evolution overlook the fact that life needs software as well as hardware

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February 15, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Richard W. Stevens points out that a bird does not fly just because it has wings; it needs a Explanations of the evolution of flight do not account for that.“flight” program in its brain. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 13, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers ask: Are we more like primitive fish than we thought?

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February 13, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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“the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was already established in our fish ancestor 50 million years earlier” than a transition to land. That sounds like directed evolution, no? The researchers have stumbled onto directed evolution but their careers depend on not recognizing that fact. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 13, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
stasis
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Researchers: Huge coelacanth fish is “not a living fossil”

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February 13, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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For all practical purposes, the coelacanth is a “living fossil,” in the sense that it is an example of stasis. It wanders a bit genetically over millions of years but doesn’t change much over hundreds of millions of years. Could we say the same of most vertebrates? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 10, 2021
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Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Higher mutation rates in non-double helix DNA create intriguing alternative to common ancestry

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February 10, 2021
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Researcher: "But it's possible that the mutation rate is so high in some of these non-B DNA regions that the same mutation could occur independently in several different individuals. If this is true, it would change how we think about evolution." Read More ›