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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2021
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Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Would cognition in bacteria “dethrone” humans?

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2021
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
Takehome: Of course we can “see ourselves” as an earthworm. But it doesn’t work in reverse. And Pamela Lyon sheds no light on that fact, apart from denigrating humans. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 25, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Monarch butterflies: “Remarkable” instance of concurrent evolution

Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"It's remarkable that concurrent evolution occurred at the molecular level in all these animals," said UCR evolutionary biologist and study lead Simon "Niels" Groen. "Plant toxins caused evolutionary changes across at least three levels of the food chain!" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 25, 2021
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How did a mammoth tusk from well over 100,000 years ago end up deep in the ocean?

Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Whatever happened, the find shows that a fully terrestrial mammal can get buried in ocean sediment. So, he asks, what about some of the papers that show apparent transitional terrestrial whale fossils that are buried in deeper sea conditions? How do we know that some of these fossils had anything to do with the ocean. No doubt the ocean holds more secrets. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Paleontologist Gunter Bechly on what the fossil record actually says

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"There are multiple trade secrets among paleontologists. Chief among them is that Darwin's insistence on gradualism was motivated by his understanding that the dramatic jumps found in the fossil record imply intervention. Darwin hoped that time would reveal his desperately needed transitional fossils. It has not... " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 22, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Eric Cassell on the mystery of Monarch butterfly migration

Denyse O'Leary
November 22, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
There exists no evolutionary model that satisfactorily explains its origin. That by itself does not prove that gradual evolution didn’t produce such programming, but the lack of such a model should at least give the open-minded pause for reflection. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 18, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Snake with four legs — paleontologists’ dream come true — turns out not to be a snake

Denyse O'Leary
November 18, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"There are many evolutionary questions that could be answered by finding a four-legged snake fossil, but only if it is the real deal. The major conclusion of our team is that Tetrapodophis amplectus is not in fact a snake and was misclassified," said [Michael] Caldwell. "Rather, all aspects of its anatomy are consistent with the anatomy observed in a group of extinct marine lizards from the Cretaceous period known as dolichosaurs." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 5, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Putting all those monkeys on a raft once again…

Denyse O'Leary
November 5, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
At ENST: It would have been convenient for evolutionists if Africa and South America had split after monkeys had evolved, but they didn’t. This left them with klutzy explanations of how Old World monkeys evolved in Africa after the split, and then got to South America to become New World monkeys. [Reading this stuff helps us sympathize with King Kong. When he finally does get to New York…] 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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November 2, 2021
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Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Nervous systems alone do not cause consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
One-celled intelligence aside, it’s unclear how Antonio Damasio’s ladder of consciousness, built on self-balancing and death avoidance, gets us the human mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Researchers: Unusual island life forms may have been genetically pre-coded to vary

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
"Choi et al., publishing in PNAS, have proposed a very un-Darwinian account of how “spectacular adaptive radiations” occur on oceanic islands such as Hawaii. This has been a “paradox of evolutionary biology,” they admit. Maybe the diversity is an outworking of “ancient polymorphisms” of ancestors with a rich gene pool." As a hypothesis, it has everything going for it but Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 25, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Witt: Why is common descent a better explanation for the history of life than common design?

Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
It’s one of those questions that many never ask because they are so used to hearing the Correct Answer that no other answers surface. And they would not, of course, know objections to the Correct Answer. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 16, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Reptiles evolved, de-evolved, re-evolved teeth

Denyse O'Leary
October 16, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
In short, when researchers actually looked at reptile tooth history, it was hardly a simple evolution tale at all. It seems as if there are plans that life forms can access, perhaps within their genomes. But how do they trigger the needed changes, as opposed to just going extinct? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution theorizing for solving a mystery

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
At Big Think: “In order to truly appreciate Dr. Julius’ discovery, a bit of context may be in order. Unless you build up tolerance, eating spicy foods is painful. Peppers and wasabi give off a strange sensation that your mouth is on fire, and for the longest time researchers simply couldn’t figure out why this was the case. Failing to pinpoint any immediate benefits of this response, they speculated it must be the remnant of some distant evolutionary adaptation." Read More ›