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Intelligent Design

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 22, 2020
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Design inference
Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz: A motorhead looks at design in nature

News
February 22, 2020
Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz: I’m sure if Behe had asked any of the mechanics there at the garage, what they thought about the neoDarwinian hypothesis that complex machinery can be produced by random processes, they would have answered that such an idea is extremely silly, if not right out ludicrous. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 21, 2020
Categories
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Eric Holloway: A philosopher explains why thinking matter is impossible

News
February 21, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Holloway: Richard Johns's' argument is deeper version of Captain Kirk’s scheme to defeat enemy robots in I, Mudd, a 1967 episode of Star Trek. Kirk posed a paradox that led to circuit meltdown. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Michael Egnor: Why the mind cannot just emerge from the brain

News
February 20, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Egnor: Thoughts have emotional states; matter doesn’t have emotional states, just matter. So it’s not clear that you can get an emergent property when there is no connection whatsoever between that property and the thing it supposedly emerges from. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
Categories
Epigenetics
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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New layer of complexity of the month: Epitranscriptomics

News
February 20, 2020
Epigenetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Layers on layers, systems on systems. Puts one in mind of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond, doesn’t it? Legacy science media should ramp up those Pond graphics. And keep the speculation about random events accidentally producing life coming. Speculate HARDER! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Mike Egnor offers to help Darwinist PZ Myers tell boys from girls

News
February 20, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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For a person who believes so strongly in the power of natural selection, yes, how the genes get together would be a good thing to know. Myers recently asserted that when he meets people, he infers nothing about their sexual identity. Egnor responds to the general question and the particular one in two parts. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2020
Categories
'Junk DNA'
Darwinism
Evolution
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Yes, genes from nowhere ARE an “evolutionary problem.”

News
February 20, 2020
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Evolution, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Glad we are talking about this… No need to believe us (though we did warn you). What's this about “rampant” order in the genome? “Rampant” is a word we associate with disease; it’s not a word we commonly associate with “order.” On the other hand, an order that frustrates the outworkings of Darwinian evolution in favor of an orderly system that produces needed innovations must seem a lot like a disease to some. ;) Read More ›
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February 19, 2020
Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Sci-Tech watch

Betelgeuse watch, 2: Has it finally stopped dimming?

kairosfocus
February 19, 2020
Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Sci-Tech watch
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Mebbe, for now. According to Forbes: >>The red supergiant star Betelgeuse appears to have finally stopped its unprecedented dimming, Villanova University astronomer Edward Guinan told me [ Bruce Dorminey] this afternoon. He says that although he’s unsure what has caused its strange brightness fluctuations, Betelgeuse is not likely to undergo a supernova explosion anytime soon.  “The star has been nearly steady in brightness now over the last 10 days,” said Guinan. We could be at minimum brightness now and very soon the star will slowly brighten if it follows its normal 420 to 430 period of pulsation, says Guinan. Or when the star periodically changes its  brightness, he says. >> Of course, supernova fans are still rooting for a big boom. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Harvard astronomer is back: Radio bursts could be aliens

News
February 19, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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The reader who sent this tip notes, “Consider me skeptical but it’s interesting that design inferences are fine so long as it’s just aliens…” Actually, reader, some science personalities will believe darn near anything about anything as long as it IS aliens. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2020
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Academic Freedom
Culture
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Science media have strange standards for assessing corruption…

News
February 19, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Berezow goes on to add something very significant: “The scientific publishing industry is thoroughly corrupt, and AAAS and Science are now also a part of the problem. If and when all government-funded research is mandated to be released free of charge upon publication, journals like Science may go out of business. Good riddance.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2020
Categories
Academic Freedom
Ethics
Intelligent Design
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At MercatorNet: For once, a woke “ethicist” gets shut down by people with disabilities

News
February 19, 2020
Academic Freedom, Ethics, Intelligent Design
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Message to activists for persons with disabilities: Please fight for Peter Singer’s freedom of speech to display his agenda to the world while there is still a slight chance you can legally fight it. Leave the defense of censorship to those well-heeled woke who would also deprive you of your lives. So many of them will be only too happy to oblige in both cases. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Richard Dawkins says eugenics works because he assumes we are just like animals

News
February 17, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At one fell swoop, Dawkins exposes another frequent weakness of naturalist atheism: direct conflict with facts. Eugenics does not work for humans. Unlike animals, we make personal choices, which could be based on reason and free will or on the apparent lack thereof. And those choices confound the ambitions of others. Read More ›