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Denyse O'Leary
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November 21, 2021
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Why did the evangelical Christian world go nuts for Christian Darwinism a decade ago?

Denyse O'Leary
November 21, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
Contra Trendy Christians: It makes sense that all humans would descend from a single couple. If you had to account for something like, say, human consciousness, isn’t it easier to address that if we all belong to the same family of origin? Would you prefer to explain the development of human consciousness assuming that we come from multiple different ones? Darn good thing if someone can prove its true genetically. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Casey Luskin: The mytho-history of Adam, Eve, and William Lane Craig

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Long a defender of orthodoxy, Craig seems to want to prune the orthodoxies he is expected to defend. But the pruning process in which he is engaged can never really stop. The “sensible God” is most likely the one looking back at us from our medicine cabinet mirrors. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2021
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William Lane Craig on Adam and Eve as less intelligent than us

Denyse O'Leary
November 13, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Whatever else Craig’s view is, as Luskin notes, it is a far cry from the Scriptural traditional assumption that the unfallen Adam and Eve were our betters and that we have all deteriorated as a result of sin. Adopting Craig’s view is bound to have worldview consequences. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Evangelical scientists getting it wrong…

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Casey Luskin: Craig continues to rely upon BioLogos arguments that pseudogenes are “broken” and non-functional junk DNA that we share with apes, thereby demonstrating our common ancestry. Those arguments are increasingly contradicted by evidence presented in highly authoritative scientific papers which find that pseudogenes are commonly functional, and they ought not be assumed to be genetic “junk.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 9, 2021
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Author of Taking Leave of Darwin on common descent of humans and apes

Denyse O'Leary
November 9, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Neil Thomas: Darwin envisioned the momentous ontological change from ape to man occurring gradually by way of “transitional forms.” Pressing far too heavily on time itself as a causal agent, he advanced the untestable hypothesis that the changes will have taken place during the billions of years separating our present day from the supposed time of the first appearance of a simian species on our planet. Since this theory is beyond the reach of any possible empirical test, it requires alternative evidential back-up. Unfortunately for Darwin there is a dearth of any fossil evidence establishing the claimed evolutionary “missing links,” ... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Casey Luskin on the unique origins of humanity in the fossil record

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
DI Channel: Does the fossil record prove humans developed from ape-like ancestors? Or does it reveal that humans had a unique origin? In this lecture, geologist Casey Luskin offers some surprising evidence about the fossil history of humanity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 31, 2021
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Casey Luskin on Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Luskin: "Evolution moulded our minds and bodies to the life of hunter-gatherers” (p. 378) — then there’s no reason to expect that we should need to evolve the ability to build cathedrals, compose symphonies, ponder the deep physics mysteries of the universe, or write entertaining (or even imaginative) books about human history. Why should these things evolve? He said it, not me: “Frankly, we don’t know.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 30, 2021
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“Twisted” human birth canal “evolved” to be good design

Denyse O'Leary
October 30, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Researchers: A longitudinally deeper inlet would require greater pelvic tilt and lumbar lordosis, which would compromise spine health and the stability of upright posture. These different requirements of the pelvic inlet and outlet likely have led to the evolution of a twisted birth canal, requiring human babies to rotate during birth. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2021
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Reshuffling of early human names results in new name, Homo bodoensis

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Researchers: The new name is based on a reassessment of existing fossils from Africa and Eurasia from this time period. Traditionally, these fossils have been variably assigned to either Homo heidelbergensis or Homo rhodesiensis, both of which carried multiple, often contradictory definitions. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 25, 2021
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Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity

Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2021
Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Casey Luskin: "many non-coding sequences are highly dissimilar, and there are sequences of the human and chimp genomes that are so different that they can’t be aligned for comparison. For example, there are some parts of our genome, such as the human y chromosome, that are radically different from the chimp genome." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 21, 2021
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Oldest human-like footprints are 2.5 million years older than the ones attributed to “Lucy”

Denyse O'Leary
October 21, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Re footprints in Crete: “The tracks are almost 2.5 million years older than the tracks attributed to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) from Laetoli in Tanzania,” says study co-author Uwe Kirscher, an expert on paleogeography at the University of Tübingen, in a statement. [Crete?!] Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Scripture scholar John Oswalt weighs in critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
We are closing in on an important fact here: Craig’s Historical Adam is the true ancestor of the Historical Jesus. Now it all begins to make sense. Read More ›