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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 26, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Michael Behe responds to the critics at his university, Parts 2 and 3

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March 26, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Contra Lang and Rice, it’s preposterous to say that the data “are more than sufficient to convince any open minded skeptic that unguided evolution is capable of generating complex systems.” Unless one defines a skeptic of Darwin’s theory (the most prominent proposed “unguided” explanation) as closed-minded, a quick visit to the library will disabuse one of that notion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 26, 2019
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Darwinism
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Two views of Ben Shapiro’s interview with Steve Meyer

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March 26, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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Meanwhile, a critic, French-Canadian neuroscientist Jean-Francois Gariépy, who appears to be an alt right figure, has made his own vid, at The Public Space reviewing/attacking Shapiro’s interview with Meyer. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 25, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
speciation
stasis
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Researchers: Newly discovered frog separated from others by 50 million years

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March 25, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation, stasis
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"It's a perfect scenario for cooking up new species," he said. What? Wait! This isn’t a “new species.” This is a holdover from 50 million years ago, during which it’s always been an obvious frog. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 25, 2019
Categories
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism

A philosopher explains why machines are not creative

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March 25, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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When you consider all the reasons why machines cannot be creative, one must ask, is the belief that we can build superintelligent machines rooted in naturalism (nature is all there is), often called “materialism,” or in evidence? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 24, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Philosophy
Science

Darwinism’s influence on philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn

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March 24, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
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A friend writes, "There was one paradigm that Kuhn assumed was not a paradigm, but a fact of nature: Darwinism. His whole approach to scientific revolutions was Darwinian. New paradigms emerge as accidental mutations, not because of new evidence. " Read More ›
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post
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 23, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science

Philosopher of science Steve Meyer will be on Ben Shapiro’s show Sunday

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March 23, 2019
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Steve Meyer is the author of Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt. Not everyone wants to hear what he has to say: It was announced on Twitter this morning, and as you can imagine, the Twitterati are not pleased. They are bombarding the show with replies about “bunk science and the 6,000 year old universe,” “Why not have a hour long discussing with a Flat Earther? Just as much evidence to support that claim as there is for ID,” and so on.David Klinghoffer, “Stephen Meyer on the Ben Shapiro Show This Sunday: God, Intelligent Design, and More” at Evolution News and Science Today: You have to subscribe to watch the show tomorrow but it will be in the archives Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 23, 2019
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Ecology
extinction
Intelligent Design
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Insectologists swat insects-are-doomed paper

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March 23, 2019
Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
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The temptation for some seems to be to resort to apocalypse voodoo to demonstrate a crisis, at the expense of the methods that make scientists worth listening to, as an alternative to supermarket tabloids. File this one with: The real reasons people don’t "trust science" Read More ›