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Denyse O'Leary
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February 2, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Religion
Science
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Are Christians just “less hireable” in science?

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February 2, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
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Note: “Taken together, these studies indicate that perceived bias against Christians in science may contribute to underrepresentation of Christians but actual bias against Christians in science may be restricted to a specific type of Christianity that scientists call fundamentalist and/or evangelical.” Well, Christians pay taxes for science and it’s really up to them to launch actions against actual bias incidents. No? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 2, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
Philosophy
Science
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Is lavish taxpayer funding killing science?

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February 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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Before you say no, at least read this.. One senses that the massive increase in research misconduct masks a deeper issue. Why don’t scientists want to be more honest? In most systems whose practitioners are distinguished for a high standard of integrity, integrity is actually a value. Can science thrive without it? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 2, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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End of science prediction from 2014: Are we there yet?

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February 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy
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Daniel Greenfield on the Saganization of science: This form of science measures itself not against the universe, but against the intellectual bubble inhabited by those who share the same worldview or those who live under their control. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 1, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Rob Sheldon unpacks the new “backwards causation”quantum mechanics research

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February 1, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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QM is all about microstates and their measurement, but not about macroscopic properties that you and I normally associate with everyday objects--smoothness, ripeness, tools like "hammer and nail" or biology like "chicken and egg". So indeed we can entangle QM microstates, but can't entangle chickens and eggs, and therefore using those terms creates a semantic muddle. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2020
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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The design of life, even in a rat’s whiskers

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January 31, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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As usual Darwin was creating a rhetorical fog. There is no conflict between design in nature and the operation of fixed laws of nature. Quite the opposite. The Euler spiral is a fixed law of the mathematics that helps hold our universe together, resulting in the design we see. There is no reason to believe that the rat went through hundreds of flopped, fatal designs for whiskers (natural selection acting on random mutation) before hitting on the Euler spiral. It was probably implicit from the beginning because the nature of reality in our universe would enact it. You can call this creationism if you want. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Podcast: Walter Bradley on the new, expanded edition of The Mystery of Life’s origin

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January 30, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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From ID the Future: On this episode of ID the Future, Robert J. Marks interviews Walter Bradley, co-author of the seminal 1984 ID book The Mystery of Life’s Origin, now being released in a revised and expanded edition with updates from multiple contributors discussing the progress (or lack of it) in origins science in the 35 years since the book’s original publication. Read More ›