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Denyse O'Leary
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August 17, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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William Lane Craig and atheist actor Scott Clifton on the Kalam Cosmological Constant

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August 17, 2021
Intelligent Design
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The Kalam Cosmological Constant “uses a general pattern of argumentation (logos) that makes an inference from particular alleged facts about the universe (cosmos) to the existence of a unique being, generally identified with or referred to as God.” - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 17, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Psychology
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At ScienceNews: Statistical significance as a strange idea

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August 17, 2021
Intelligent Design, Psychology
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Bower: To make matters worse, psychology journals began to publish papers only if they reported statistically significant findings, prompting a surprisingly large number of investigators to massage their data — either by gaming the system or cheating — to get below the P value of 0.05 that granted that status. Inevitably, bogus findings and chance associations began to proliferate. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 17, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
speciation
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Researchers find Philippine group to have highest known Denisovan ancestry

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August 17, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Don’t you just love the way the writer refers to the Denisovans as a “species” that went “extinct” (like Tyrannosaurus?) As Darwinism dies out, its usages begin to sound more and more, well, quaint. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz on why randomness depends on order

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August 16, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Pultz: Comparing to evolution, the randomness produced by the orderly dice, would be the same randomness having produced the dice itself, because that’s how evolution works, slowly building order by random events from the bottom up. Applying the same hypothetical process to bicycles the random event that I get a puncture when riding my bike would be the same type of event which initially created the bike. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Religion
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At Mind Matters News: Researchers: Buddhist monks’ bodies decay very slowly at death

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August 16, 2021
Intelligent Design, Religion
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According to traditional meditation lore, they are in a meditative state (thukdam) until their consciousness is clear; only then does the body begins to decay. Neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson. saw it for himself, then organized a study of the phenomenon. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 15, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Intelligent Design
Religion
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ENCODE foe Dan Graur isn’t sure if Jesus existed

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August 15, 2021
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design, Religion
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Wow. Dr. Graur should get out more. Only crackpots argue that Jesus did not exist... There is less evidence for the existence of Socrates but no one gets all skeptical about him. Interesting responses. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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William Lane Craig and Alvin Planting rank in Top Ten of world philosophers

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August 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Craig: What is especially significant is that these rankings are not just someone’s subjective opinion but are computed according to an algorithm that takes into account such objective data as number of citations of one’s work. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 15, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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At Forbes: Could dark energy be a misinterpretation of the data?

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August 15, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Siegel: In the near future, observatories like the ESA’s Euclid, the NSF’s Vera Rubin Observatory, and NASA’s Nancy Roman Observatory will improve that uncertainty so that if dark energy departs from a constant by as little as ~1-2%, we’ll be able to detect it. If it strengthens or weakens over time, or varies in different directions, it would be a revolutionary new indicator that dark energy is even more exotic than we currently think. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Jordan Peterson’s reflections on Twitter on reading Steve Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis

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August 15, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Jordan, if you believe Meyer is right or even partways right or is making a good case, stand your ground. You have already faced some of the most incomprehensibly vicious mobs that Cancel Culture has spewed and you are still standing. Follow the evidence, not the crybullies. You, of all people, can afford to and it would do immense good. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Chase Nelson at Inference Review: Reconstructing ancestral proteins

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August 13, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Nelson: "... it is only possible to scratch the surface of evolutionary history—only those proteins which diverged relatively recently remain similar enough to compare with confidence. The deepest questions about the origins of novel gene families remain shrouded in mystery." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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CERN: New exotic particle, tetraquark, discovered

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August 13, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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CERN: The new particle contains two charm quarks and an up and a down antiquark. Several tetraquarks have been discovered in recent years (including one with two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks), but this is the first one that contains two charm quarks, without charm antiquarks to balance them. Read More ›