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Intelligent Design

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 4, 2019
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extinction
Intelligent Design
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Are extinctions evidence of a divine purpose in life?

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August 4, 2019
extinction, Intelligent Design
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Hugh Ross: As with all mass extinction events that have occurred in the history of Earth’s life, the Pliocene-Pleistocene mass extinction event poses a serious challenge to models attempting to explain the history of Earth’s life by strictly natural means. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 4, 2019
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design

Gems from headlines 2011-2012 predicting the demise of ID

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August 4, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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As it happens, Darwin is in way bigger trouble now. One regularly sees stuff walloping along in the current of science information that isn’t consistent with any plausible interpretation of biology’s Big Theory. Not only does no one do anything about it but the worry that they ever will is beginning to fade. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 3, 2019
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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The genes that come to life after you die

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August 3, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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The most likely explanation is that death is a process of shutting down, rather than an instant when everything stops. The genes to grow a spinal column, for example, resurfaced but maybe they had been suppressed because the deceased already had one. Still much to learn but that’s a good hypothesis to test. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 2, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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New book from Harvard U Press: Childhood, not evolution makes us human

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August 2, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Two things: If the significant changes happen to humans between birth and seven years of age, it is not q theory of evolution at all, but of intellectual and cultural development. Also, Tomasello seems not be following the party line that apes are just like us but we refuse to recognize the fact. That’s borderline heresy. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 1, 2019
Categories
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
Neuroscience
Physics
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Panpsychism: Scientists who believe that the universe is conscious

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August 1, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience, Physics
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Some prominent physicists and neuroscientists who cannot accept the idea of a separate immaterial reality (dualism) turn to the simplest alternative, that the whole universe participates in consciousness (panpsychism). Read More ›
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post
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 1, 2019
Categories
Academic Freedom
Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The College Fix LISTENS TO David Gelernter on Darwin!

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August 1, 2019
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It’s almost as though people are “getting it” that Darwinism now functions as an intolerant secular religion. Evolution rolls on oblivious but, here and there, heads are getting cracked over the differences between what really happens and what Darwinians insist must happen. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2019
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Even viruses have complex origins now

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July 31, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Well, this is interesting, for sure: “The findings show that this broad class of single-stranded DNA viruses, which infect all three cellular domains of life, have acquired their genetic components through complex evolutionary processes not traceable to a single ancestral event.” Maybe there wasn’t a “single ancestral event” for cells either. Also: The hope is to “resolve the question of how cell-based life came to co-exist with the planet's staggering array of viruses (dubbed the virome).” One commonly heard hypothesis is that viruses are degraded cells. It will be interesting to hear alternative theses. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Religion
science education
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Speaker bounced from science teachers’ conference recounts his experiences

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July 31, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion, science education
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One way of looking at the story: When Darwinian evolution became a secular religion, as Darwinian philosopher Michael Ruse admits it is, an inevitable consequence followed: The usual assortment of puritans, pharisees, and timeservers who hang around other religions also hung around Darwinism. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2019
Categories
Darwinism
Genetics
Intelligent Design

A single set of genes drives pufferfish spines, mouse hair, and chicken feathers

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July 31, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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If so, this set of genes got started a very long time ago and shows an admirable ability to switch from producing, say, lawnmowers to cars to cell phones. Yet it got started back when life was supposed to be simple and primitive, remember? It would seem that something back then was not simple and primitive. Read More ›