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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2022
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More examples of human-made “evolution,” which are changing the way evolution is seen

Denyse O'Leary
January 28, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"We have come a long way from the old view of evolution as a slow process to the point where we are now realizing that everything is evolving all around us all the time," says Andrew Hendry, a Professor of Biology at the Redpath Museum of McGill and the co-senior author on the paper recently published in Molecular Ecology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 2, 2022
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Water bears (tardigrades) create a puzzle re evolution of walking

Denyse O'Leary
January 2, 2022
Evolution
At Ars Technica: Specifically, as the tardigrades sped up, they would transition between having five legs on the ground, then four legs on the ground, then three legs on the ground—just like insects and arthropods, despite a 20-million-year evolutionary gap between them. " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 25, 2021
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Can giant ichthyosaur fossil shed light on whale development?

Denyse O'Leary
December 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Really, the only connection is that youngorum is another life form that grew very large in a comparatively short period of time. Maybe a number of unrelated examples will point to a general rule but the story doesn’t shed light on the peculiar history of whales. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 21, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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To what extent is the science we must learn at school materialist propaganda?

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Here’s a question: Given what we (hope we) know today about the origin and development of life forms, would anyone today propose neo-Darwinism (natural selection) in any of its forms as an explanation - if they hadn't already had to accept it anyway in order to get to where they are today? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 19, 2021
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The Palmers’ continuing series at YouTube: Micro evolution vs Macro Evolution, Part 2

Denyse O'Leary
December 19, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
From introduction: [I]n Part 2 we look at the textbook examples of microevolution in light of gene sequencing. In every example of microevolution used to support Darwinism, mutations only degraded existing genes. No new genes were created. But without new genes, Darwinism is limited to microevolution. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 16, 2021
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Researchers: Endothermy (warmbloodedness)could have started over 300 million years ago

Denyse O'Leary
December 16, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Pushing back the time things could have happened just by accident (a million monkeys typing)... Researchers: "This is likely to be controversial, but we think, and hope, that it will spark some great conversations and it could lead to a change in our understanding of the ways body warmth is maintained." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 14, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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What? Brain surgeons are NOT smarter than the rest of us?

Denyse O'Leary
December 14, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind

We are told, “Data from 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons suggests they are not necessarily cleverer than general population”: Researchers examined data from an international cohort of 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons who completed 12 tasks online using the Great British Intelligence Test (GBIT) from the Cognitron platform, as well as answering questions around their age, sex and levels of experience in their speciality. The tasks examined various aspects of cognition, including planning and reasoning, working memory, attention, and emotion processing abilities. The researchers then compared the results against those previously gathered from more than 18,000 members of the British public. The findings, which were published in the festive edition of the BMJ, reveal that only neurosurgeons showed Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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Classic in devolution: Burrowing snakes have poor eyesight, challenging theory

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2021
Evolution
This find challenges the hypothesis that all snakes living across the world today evolved from extreme burrowers, because the vision genes lost in scolecophidians are present in most other living snakes. The researchers say it would be extremely unlikely for such genetic deficiencies to have been reversed through evolution. Read More ›