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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 16, 2021
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Animal minds
Convergent evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Spiders use the same cues as vertebrates in distinguishing living vs. non-living things

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July 16, 2021
Animal minds, Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Complex vision evolved independently in vertebrates and arthropods and so the ability to distinguish living from non-living motion using the relative positioning of the joints has most likely arisen convergently in the two groups of animals. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 16, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
rhetoric
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But the war IS actually on logic … and that’s the point

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July 16, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
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John West: "Reading the rest of her article I realized she simply didn’t know how to frame a proper comparison. She actually was attempting to malign those who support intelligent design, not those who tried to create panic over it. Apparently neither she nor her editor is particularly good with logic." But that’s the point. The whole enterprise is a war on logic. It's like the war on math and the war on science. And there is a sophisticated public for that now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 15, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A hint as to how unicellular life forms grew to be multicellular?

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July 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Margaret Helder comments on the study: "Lots of algae exhibit clumping together in groups. This is not the definition of multicellularity. There are quite a number of colonial relatives of Chlamydomonas, for example like Eudorina, Pandorina and Volvox. They are not evolving into anything." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 15, 2021
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Natural selection
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At Oscillations: Michael Ruse’s attempted takedown of evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin (but read the story!)

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July 15, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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Ruse appears to have been a relentless enforcer of Darwinian orthodoxy behind the scenes, including a blistering attack on philosopher Jerry Fodor, who questioned it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 14, 2021
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Creationism
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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Historian Richard Weikart on acceptance of Darwinian evolution and racism …

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July 14, 2021
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Richard Weikart: I have done a good deal of research on this topic, and as it turns out, the vast majority of white supremacists today embrace Darwinian evolution and use it as evidence for their white supremacy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 14, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Is panpsychism replacing materialism?

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July 14, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Panpsychism, in the form of Integrated Information Theory (IIT), is a much more serious competitor to dualism and idealism than materialism could hope to be. Panpsychists are not trying to claim that consciousness is merely an illusion. They may be wrong but they aren't ridiculous. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 13, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At Evolution News and Science Today: The casual racism of Charles Darwin

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July 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Shedinger calls Allison Hopper’s piece in Scientific American, “startlingly vacuous,” which raises — once again — the question of why on earth the mag published it. It’s not as if there is no scholarship on the topic of Darwin and racism. Did the editors not want to address that scholarship? Well, we can’t read minds but we can make some reasonable guesses. How about: Create a big uproar and hope everyone will focus on that and not on the topic at hand? Shedinger also notes perceptively, “One does not become racist because of the view one holds on human origins. One becomes racist for other complex reasons and then reads that racism back into whatever view on human origins you hold.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 13, 2021
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Creationism
Intelligent Design
Racism
Religion
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At PJ Media: A response to religious claims made in Scientific American’s “denial of evolution is white supremacy” piece

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July 13, 2021
Creationism, Intelligent Design, Racism, Religion
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Bolyard: “I’m not here to debate the hows and whys of creationism. I’ll point you to Answers in Genesis for that. But I want to point out a couple of shameless strawmen in Hopper’s piece that discredit everything else she writes in this piece.” Of course. Hopper was almost certainly making it up as she went along, trusting that few readers had read or spent much time on the relevant literature. Read More ›