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Evolution

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 20, 2019
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Books of interest
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Religion
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Who’s throwing stones at “Nature’s Prophet”? (Wallace)

News
November 20, 2019
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
3
A reviewer attacking Michael Flannery, author of a book on Darwin's co-theorist Wallace re his Discovery Institute ties, actually wrote a book with a serious racist in 2003. Of course, rules Darwinists dream up never apply to themselves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 18, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: The colorful squid does it via a “marvelous molecular machine”

News
November 18, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
2
""We had no idea that the mechanism we would discover would turn out to be so remarkably complex yet contained and so elegantly integrated in one multifunctional molecule" Was that a shutter banging or the ghost of Darwin rattling in the night? Hard to tell these days. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: How butterflies develop the same wing color via different paths “forever changes the way evolution is understood.”

News
November 15, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
Riccardo Papa, co-author and professor at the University of Puerto Rico: “Distinct species with identical wing-color patterns, such as co-mimetic butterflies, can evolve using different molecular strategies. Imagine the same notes played on different instruments!" We CAN imagine it. It is called intelligent design. The melody is an idea and it can be iterated on different instruments. Thanks for listening. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2019
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
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Researchers: Evolution is not “survival of the fittest”

News
November 15, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution
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"However, less-fit lineages also routinely leapfrog over strains of higher fitness. Our results demonstrate that this combination of factors, which is not accounted for in existing models of evolutionary dynamics, is critical in determining the rate, predictability and molecular basis of adaptation.” If Darwinism mattered the way it used to, this would be heresy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 1, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Darwinism is dead and the butterflies did it

News
November 1, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
No, but seriously, if "'species' are simply not what we thought they were,” as the researchers' media release reads, all those carefully thought-out explanations of the neo-Darwinian origin of various butterfly traits must compete with “a complete morass of inter-connectedness.” Darwinism is dying and people are wisely refraining from spelling that out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 28, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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“Moths’ ‘ears’ developed millions of years before bats” study is open access

News
October 28, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: "We've thought for a long time that flowering plants must have contributed to the extraordinary number of moth and butterfly species we see today, but we haven't been able to test that. This study helps us see if prior hypotheses line up, and what we find is that the plant hypothesis does, but the bat hypothesis does not." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A toad looks and sounds like a venomous snake

News
October 25, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A classic example of Darwinism at work, right?. It did a lot of good for the toad to happen to look one per cent like a venomous snake, so then it evolved to two percent and that did more good so it naturally selected to three percent and… Not really. Whatever happened isn’t a form of Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 22, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Plants
stasis
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Did the mega dinosaurs grow so big on a “living fossil” grass?

News
October 22, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
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Equisetum, considered a “living fossil” is the only surviving member of a large family of spore-bearing vascular plants found as early as 150 mya. It's still here. The giant sauropods not so much. Read More ›