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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 17, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Researchers: Human face evolved to enhance social expression

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April 17, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Okay, but social expression is only important if one has something to communicate. How the “something to communicate” came to exist is the tricky part. That’s when the nonsense starts up. And when did the “something to communicate” start to happen? What if evidence of abstract reasoning predates the noted facial changes by tens of thousands of millennia? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 16, 2019
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Plants
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Plants “evolve” during the course of an experiment?

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April 16, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Wait a minute. This isn’t evolution! If these traits developed during the experiment, the tendency to do this sort of thing must be coded into the plants. The question then becomes, what signal systems convey information throughout the plant about self-pollination or blossom size in response to environment changes? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 16, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Mind
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Simpson’s Paradox: Numbers are stranger than we think

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April 16, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind
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One outcome of Simpson’s Paradox is that machines cannot replace statisticians in analysing results. A great deal depends on interpretation, as Marks shows. “Clustering remains largely an art.” Read More ›
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Author
Barry Arrington
Date
April 16, 2019
Categories
Intelligent Design

Increasing Skepticism Among Secular Scientists?

Barry Arrington
April 16, 2019
Intelligent Design
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Today at The Federalist: The plain truth from the literature, conferences, expert perception, and a bit of anecdote for color, is that current Neo-Darwinism is far from the untouchable theory it is lauded to be. Not only this, but it has serious and increasing skeptics and challengers from within the secular scientific community.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 15, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Science
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A biophysicist looks at the limits of what science can tell us

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April 15, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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Kirk Durston: An essential prediction of the Darwinian theory of common descent, for example, is that functional genetic information increases through a process of mutations, insertions, and deletions. Experimental science, however, consistently falsifies this prediction. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 15, 2019
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Intelligent Design
language
Mind
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At Inference Review: Human language is much more than a system of signals

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April 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, language, Mind
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University of maryland linguist: The formal structures of linguistics and neurophysiology are disjoint, a point emphasized by Poeppel and David Embick in a widely cited study. There is an incommensurability between theories of the brain and theories of the mind… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 15, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Researchers: Origin of life more likely in ponds, assisted by lightning, than oceans

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April 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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The researcher’s analogy is interesting (more like building a cathedral than knocking over a row of dominos). If the origin of life were like knocking over a row of dominos, life would be coming into existence ex nihilo, easily and often. That is assuredly not what we find. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 14, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Artificial intelligence is not dangerous. Only natural intelligence is dangerous

News
April 14, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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There is a huge media pundit industry anxious to persuade us that machines will come to think like people when the actual concern should be quite the opposite… people will come to think like machines and won't see through their pretensions. See, for example, A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 14, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Physics
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Video: How Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Correlate

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April 14, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Physics
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From Philip Cunningham: Notes: In this present video I would like to further refine and expand on the argument that I made in the “Albert Einstein vs. Quantum Mechanics and His Own Mind” video with more recent experimental evidence from quantum mechanics. and to thus further strengthen the case that the present experimental evidence that we now have from quantum mechanics strongly supports a Mind First and/or a Theistic view of reality, and even, when combined with other scientific evidences that we now have, strongly supports the Christian view of reality in particular. In order to accomplish this task I must first define some properties of immaterial mind which are irreconcilable with the reductive materialistic view of mind that Darwinists Read More ›