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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 1, 2020
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Culture
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Religion
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A just-so story about the origin of religious beliefs

News
March 1, 2020
Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
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Some of us would be more impressed if the authors of this type of work attributed their OWN beliefs to these types of sources. How about this: Belief that there is no design in nature comes from spending a lot of time reading and writing boring, useless papers and sitting in boring, useless meetings, Eventually, homo academicus evolved to believe that all nature is like that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 1, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Claim: There are benefits to nihilism

News
March 1, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Nihilism would suit the war on math and the war on science well because—for the nihilist—there are really no laws or facts anyway and those who pretend that there are such things are merely powerseekers like themselves. And, for the present, the defenders are less fashionable power seekers than the attackers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 1, 2020
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Cosmology
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
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A new piece of information in the question of why matter exists at all in the universe

News
March 1, 2020
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Researchers: " ...the neutron has a significantly smaller EDM (electrical dipole moment) than predicted by various theories about why matter remains in the universe" The new find doesn’t answer the question but it enables theories to be winnowed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Sabine Hossenfelder slams panpsychism

News
February 29, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Electrons cannot be conscious Sabine Hossenfelder’s view because they cannot change their behavior. Hossenfelder’s impatience is understandable but she underestimates the seriousness of the problem serious thinkers about consciousness confront. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
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American physicist Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)

News
February 28, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design
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Freeman Dyson comments on ID: “My opinion is that most people believe in intelligent design as a reasonable explanation of the universe, and this belief is entirely compatible with science. So it is unwise for scientists to make a big fight against the idea of intelligent design.” (2007) Read More ›
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February 28, 2020
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Intelligent Design

Betelgeuse, black-/cavity- body radiation and star spectra

kairosfocus
February 28, 2020
Intelligent Design
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As we have seen in recent days, Betelgeuse (usually the 11th brightest visible star) has started to climb back up the magnitude scale; right on time for a 420 – 430 day cycle. That suggests that the event since October is likely a superposition of dimming cycles. The long- expected Type II supernova is put on hold. Some time in the next 100,000 years is projected. Also, Betelgeuse is actually the brightest star, when we look at the near infrared (excepting the Sun, of course). This is because its spectral peak is actually in the infrared, much like that for an old fashioned incandescent lamp. That brings up the question of star spectra and the close relationship of such spectra Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Natural selection
science education
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At Oscillations: “Natural selection” issue stirs again at College Boards

News
February 28, 2020
Intelligent Design, Natural selection, science education
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It goes on and gets way better. You’ll be amazed at the idiocracy that the testing establishment takes for granted and promotes. Read at her site about how one testcrat even administered the same test twice, a fact advertised on the internet… and more. By the way, why don't we hear much about this from other science writers? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 27, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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Michael Egnor: Pioneer neuroscientists believed the mind is more than the brain

News
February 27, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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neurosurgeon Michael Egnor talks about how many famous neuroscientist became dualists—that is, they concluded that there is something about human beings that goes beyond matter—based on observations they made during their work. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 27, 2020
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Deaf moths frustrate bats by absorbing their sonar calls

News
February 27, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Schoolbook evolution stories would tell us that the bats evolved that ruse as a random mutation acted on by natural selection—as if it were some kind of a lucky number they might have come up with in 65 million years. Not so fast. It’s a hitherto unknown system that will need a considerably more detailed explanation than that. Evoking "natural selection" as a mantra won't work like it used to, back when we knew so much less. Read More ›