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Denyse O'Leary
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May 12, 2019
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Evolution
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Colin Patterson: Can you tell me anything about evolution that is true?

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May 12, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Further to the story we noted last night, that possibly one-third of biologists now question Darwinism, this might be a good time to bring up Colin Patterson (1933-1998) again. He was a senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History and he offered an awkward question to colleagues one day: “Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that is true?” He began to sense something amiss over forty years ago and this is the audio and transcript of a lecture he gave before the Systematics Discussion Group at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City in 1981: (two parts, transcript follows, courtesy Access Research Network): The question is: Can Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 11, 2019
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Darwinism
Education
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Educating oneself away from science denial: Two true stories

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May 11, 2019
Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Our Danish friend Karsten Pultz, author of Exit Evolution, read the dramatic story of the flight from fundamentalism and responded by publishing his own account of how he escaped science denial. It is a somewhat different story Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 10, 2019
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Evolution
extinction
Intelligent Design
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Bird “goes extinct” twice

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May 10, 2019
Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design
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Note that loss of the ability to fly is treated in this story as a form of evolution, as if the loss resulted in greater complexity rather than less. As if it wasn't fatal when the island was inundated. But it enables evolutionary biologists to say that "evolution happened." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 3, 2019
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Cell biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Can the giant Medusa virus help explain the evolution of complex life?

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May 3, 2019
Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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As described, the authors’ explanation doesn’t follow. The Medusavirus substituting its own DNA for that of the host is no different from the cuckoo substituting its own offspring for another bird’s in a nest. The fact that the strategy works does not necessarily demonstrate a hereditary relationship between the two species. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 24, 2019
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Climate change
Evolution
extinction
Intelligent Design
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Megacarnivore found in drawer

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April 24, 2019
Climate change, Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design
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The cat came back. so to speak. Actually, extinct Simbakubwa kutokaafrika was not a cat but a hyaenodont, larger than a polar bear, with three rows of shearing teeth. Found between 1978 and 1981, the jawbone had to be stored on special shelving due to its size. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 22, 2019
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Animal minds
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Beetles freeloaded off ants 100 million years ago

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April 22, 2019
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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So what, you say? Well, consider: We have no evidence that the relationship “evolved.” We are informed that we ought to see it as evolution but—as so often—we find the same patterns prevailing in the past, without any evolution. Read More ›