Intelligent Design | Uncommon Descent

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 4, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, stasis

Tagged
, Jurassic era, sharks}

Jurassic Shark! Already highly evolved

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March 4, 2023

Intelligent Design, stasis}

Do we ever find the truly primitive shark? Read More ›

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Date
March 4, 2023

Categorized
Climate change, Intelligent Design}

Climate Change’s Bait-and-Switch

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Climate change, Intelligent Design}

This will go down as my shortest post ever: What’s wrong with this equation for the burning of octane? 2 C8H18+ 25 O2⟶ 16 CO2+ 18 H2O Let’s see who’s astute out there.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 2, 2023

Categorized
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, comets, Rob Sheldon}

ID-friendly scientist argues for life on other planets

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March 2, 2023

Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design}

Rob Sheldon: I do think comets can exchange spores and therefore comet-to-comet infection spreads life throughout the galaxy, if not the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 2, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

Tagged
, dissent in science, Tomasz Durakiewicz}

In real science, dissent is a feature, not a bug

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March 2, 2023

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science}

Tomasz Durakiewicz: The courage to say no to scientific authority, to contradict widely accepted knowledge, to question and disrupt the status quo is essential to science’s ability to move forward. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 2, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

Tagged
, Lab leak theory (COVID-19)}

News about the lab leak leaking out – and why it matters to ID

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March 2, 2023

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science}

The point isn’t just that the debunkers are proven wrong in principle (because there was good reason for concern) but that there was never any reason to give them much credibility in the first place - except that they claimed to represent “science.” A few more blows like this - and they would be just the ones to administer them - and trust in science among the smarter segments of the public will not easily recover. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 1, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Media, Science

Tagged
, Vox Popoli}

The decay of science mags is not going unnoticed

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March 1, 2023

Intelligent Design, Media, Science}

Woke has its fans but it takes no prisoners. Perhaps we will get rigorous science in dribs and drabs now. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 1, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Eric Metaxas}

David Berlinski meets Eric Metaxas

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March 1, 2023

Intelligent Design}

David Klinghoffer: "It’s not just the very different personalities that make the conversation fascinating, but David’s steadfast refusal to agree with Eric that the design evidence that we discuss here points to an intelligent agent behind nature." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 1, 2023

Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, insects, lacewings, Lazarus species}

Fossil insect found at WalMart… maybe not even extinct

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March 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design}

At Phys.org: "The giant lacewing was formerly widespread across North America, but was mysteriously extirpated from eastern North America by the 1950s. This discovery suggests there may be relic populations of this large, Jurassic-Era insect yet to be discovered, explained Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State's Insect Identification Lab." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
March 1, 2023

Categorized
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants

Tagged
, foliar nyctinasty, Stephen McLoughlin}

Convergent evolution: Sleeping behavior in plants evolved independently multiple times

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March 1, 2023

Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants}

At ScienceDaily: "It is now clear that sleeping behavior has evolved independently in various plant groups and at different times in the course of Earth's history, so it must have some ecological benefits to the parent plant," [Stephen] McLoughlin continued. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
February 27, 2023

Categorized
Genetics, Intelligent Design}

Cancer researcher: DNA Code Takes My Breath Away

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February 27, 2023

Genetics, Intelligent Design}

Iacoboni: Think very large: every single organism in every single environment, from the beginning of life some 4 to 5 billion years ago until today, has been encoded by just those four letters of the DNA alphabet. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
February 27, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

Tagged
, Jonathan Turley, Lab leak theory (COVID-19), Matt Ridley}

More on the Lab Leak theory vindicated… receipts pile in…

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February 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science}

Matt Ridley: To summarise. A bat coronavirus pandemic began in the city with the biggest bat coronavirus lab in the world, a long way from where those viruses are found naturally. It was caused by the first and so-far only sarbecovirus with a furin cleavage site in it, a feature that had been inserted into other coronaviruses nearby, and that had been planned to be inserted into a sarbecovirus for the first time. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
February 26, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science

Tagged
, Jonathan Turley, Lab leak theory (COVID-19)}

Lab leak theory vindicated in upper echelons

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February 26, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science}

Turley has the receipts. The COVID crazies have singlehandedly done more damage to “the science” and “trust the science!” than anyone who actually hated science could possibly do. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
February 26, 2023

Categorized
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion}

Cornelius Hunter on evolution as a religious theory

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February 26, 2023

Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion}

Hunter: "... theological claims are common in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (Darwin 1859), where they are essential to his science. The religion is not a tangential message, and one need not read between the lines to see it." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
February 26, 2023

Categorized
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, yeast}

Yeast has “genes in waiting”

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February 26, 2023

Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design}

Carvunis should watch her back. There are lots of useless Darwinprofs out there clogging the system till retirement. They have nothing to do but take down anyone who questions their orthodoxy. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
February 26, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Mind}

Claim: Fire is why humans are different from other animals

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February 26, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mind}

Hey, they, they are getting somewhere when they admit that animals are not as smart as humans. All the rest … Some of us are getting tired of the schtick that chimps are just like humans except that we are not helping them behave that way… Read More ›