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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2020
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Is Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) gaining respectability again?

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2020
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Sarah Scoles: Proper science is now more willing to embrace SETI... Don’t just ignore all the outliers as outliers, in other words: Important truth, if not whole truth, can lurk inside of them too. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 1, 2020
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Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Some people think they can tell us what space aliens will be like

Denyse O'Leary
February 1, 2020
Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
So if aliens exist, they must be just like us because… evolution. This is a religion. Didn't say it was a bad religion. But definitely a religion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 21, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: Our puny human brains can’t imagine alien life

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Not true! We humans more or less invented the whole idea of aliens. Without us, they probably wouldn’t exist even as a story. Just think: There would be no market for ET tales, films, and trade goods except for us humans. Don’t believe me? Try to get clams or termites interested in ET and see what happens… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Talk about hope springing eternal: 2020 for our history-making alien life find?

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
It would be marvellous to find aliens out there to talk to, even if they turned to be an awful bore. But there is something suspicious about these statistics. With no single alien ever found, they offer us no history to go by. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon dumps cold water on the “planetary autopsy” that says ET life is common

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: I would argue that this is a very weak argument, mostly trying to jazz up a very boring data set or at least distract the audience from remembering the "standard candle" Nobel Prize assumed that all white dwarfs were identical. Either way, its a preposterous story attempting to distract from its most distressing results. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 12, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Exoplanet, 2x the size of Earth, has not only water but possible rain clouds

Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Most exoplanets, we are told, fall into this size range and it is not yet known if it has a rocky surface, considered important for life. Here's a roundup of some things we know. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon: Don’t give up all ET hope due to recent exoplanet disappointment

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: … in our own solar system, Saturn is far outside the "Goldilocks Zone" yet it has a moon, Enceladus, that is emitting steam jets filled with hydrocarbons. … The danger of being overly-quantitative is not just the overreliance on models, or the higher risk of failure, but rather the real probability that "certainty" blinds one from observing the actual phenomenon. Read More ›