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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 19, 2019
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Human evolution
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Researchers: Homo erectus survived longer than thought

News
December 19, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: “But the age does open up the opportunity that there could have been potential overlap with the Denisovans,” says Westaway. The Denisovans are known from a handful of remains, which have yielded DNA. They roamed Asia and interbred with the ancestors of people in China and South-East Asia. Read More ›
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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 18, 2019
Categories
Intelligent Design

The Salem Hypothesis is True, and That’s Great for ID

johnnyb
December 18, 2019
Intelligent Design
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For those who don’t know what this is, it is basically the idea that people with advanced degrees who criticize evolution tend to be engineers, not scientists. This is supposed to be levied as a diss on the critics of evolution, but I’ve never understood why this is so. Intelligent Design focuses on the *requirements* for the development of intricate, purposeful systems. Is there a science that focuses on developing intricate, purposeful systems? That might know what the requirements of building such systems are? Anyone? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 17, 2019
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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At New Scientist: Human intelligence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

News
December 17, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A working definition of intelligence defeats us for the same reasons as a working definition of beauty defeats us. Once abstractions become instantiated, they are laden with particulars. That does NOT mean that the idea is without meaning. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 17, 2019
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Atheism
Climate change
Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explains why new atheism was doomed to die young

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December 17, 2019
Atheism, Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Anyone who didn’t immediately accept all this new atheist rubbish as Big Insight was a moron, right? But Dr. Egnor goes on to warn that reason will not emerge victorious from a horse laugh at the declining new atheists’ expense. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 16, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
language
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Could speech have emerged 200,000 years ago?

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December 16, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, language
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They're even willing to conjecture that speech began as far back as twenty million years? So, speech could be very old so long as something like monkeys did it in the past? Despite the fact that nothing like monkeys does it today? Naturalism makes people confused. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 15, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Once again, New Scientist needs us to know that our sense of self is an illusion

News
December 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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This stuff never gets old because naturalists need to believe it and to believe it, they must market it as science. That said, as Michael Egnor points, out, there is one sense in which our consciousness IS an illusion: We are not aware of the processes that enable it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 15, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
theism
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Asked at The Scientist: “Does science describe experience or truth?”

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December 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, theism
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As it happens, the loss of theism puts science in an impossible position. A traditional monotheist (and probably most deists) would assume that God creates according to logic and reason and that the scientist can indeed find out the truth by “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” But otherwise, why? Loss of the theistic perspective leads directly to the current demands that science credentials and acknowledgements be apportioned on the basis of fairness as if they were public goods of some kind. Read More ›