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Barry Arrington
Date
February 7, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design

UB Schools Bob O’H

Barry Arrington
February 7, 2020
Intelligent Design
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As is his wont, national treasure Upright Biped took materialist Bob O’H to school: Bob @ 63, we can replicate the process without having to resort to adding anything immaterial” Is that right Bob? Okay, let us make you the Director of a research team with unlimited personnel, unlimited time, and unlimited funding. And let us say that with this extraordinary intellectual and research power, it is not long before you can control, manipulate, and bind together whatever molecules you wish, and not only can you do that, but you can also successfully predict the results of that manipulation. So, if you need a replacement for the extant ribosome, you got it. If you need a de novo tRNA, you Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 6, 2020
Categories
'Junk DNA'
Intelligent Design
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“Phantom genes” turn out to be useful

News
February 6, 2020
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design
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It’s amazing how little junk there turns out to be in our systems, given that Darwinians boast that masses of junk supports their theory. But, of course, lack of masses of junk will likewise supports the Darwinians’ theory: Lack of junk proves how easy it is for complex, specified order to arise from disorder and something to arise from nothing. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 6, 2020
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Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
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Sokal hoaxer Peter Boghossian makes some Utah State students feel that they are not “safe”

News
February 6, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Apparently, he is guilty of “conceptual fascism” as well. My, my. Kiddos, the only people who should not “feel safe” around a Sokal hoaxer are people who are full of it. If you knew your stuff and were doing anything useful, you’d have nothing to fear. You’d even find it fun. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 5, 2020
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Biology
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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The wholly accidental world of the placenta…

News
February 5, 2020
Biology, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
2
… in which we encounter the remarkable phenomenon of microchimerism ("These cells find their way into mother’s tissue and start acting like the tissue in which they find themselves. This process is known as feto-maternal microchimerism") Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 5, 2020
Categories
Culture
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Steve Fuller in Times Higher: Academics are the last “feudal lords”

News
February 5, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Fuller: Many if not most academics fancy themselves as “anti-capitalist”, but that may be because they are the last feudal lords. They alone take the metaphors “domain of knowledge” and “field of research” literally, which ultimately explains the fixation on plagiarism. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 4, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks: Does nature have a minimal length? Could it point to a final theory?

News
February 4, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Hossenfelder: What does this all mean? Well, it means that we might be close to finding a final theory, one that describes nature at its most fundamental level and there is nothing more beyond that. That is possible, but. Remember that the arguments for the existence of a minimal length rest on extrapolating 16 orders magnitude below the distances what we have tested so far. That’s a lot. That extrapolation might just be wrong. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 4, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Ethics
Intelligent Design
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But why need a Darwinist care about fairness in hiring?

News
February 4, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Ethics, Intelligent Design
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If so many of us are talking about Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne’s moral philosophy anyway, here’s an illustration of the conundrum it creates. Jerry is concerned about unfairness in diversity hiring. Why?: Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 3, 2020
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Huge mystery: Why are embryos timed correctly?

News
February 3, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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The research group can iterate in the greatest detail all the examples of the perfect timing throughout nature, via exquisitely designed controls, but dogma requires them to insist that it is all just an accident. A question arises: Will that requirement become a conceptual handicap? Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 3, 2020
Categories
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
science education
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The Darwin inquisition, we are told, is furious about Brazil

News
February 3, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
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Jay L. Wile: The progress of science depends on questioning the scientific consensus. Whether or not it was intentional, Brazil’s government decided to appoint someone who is skeptical of the consensus in a position of influence when it comes to science education. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 2, 2020
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
theism
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ID as a big tent

News
February 2, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
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Michael Denton in interview: He goes on, “As for your hint that you can only be an intelligent design [proponent] if you have some a priori theological or religious view, I disagree with that entirely because it doesn’t apply to me. Most of my life I have been pretty agnostic and would only describe myself perhaps as a backsliding Christian, though I’m not in any sense a fervent believer in a God, or the Christian God.” Read More ›