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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: What do Hindus think about the Big Bang? The cyclic universe?

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April 3, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Takehome: In the Hindu view, the material universe is meant to enable living consciousnesses to have sensory experiences that ultimately bring them back to God. That’s hardly a materialist view. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 3, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Virus manipulates caterpillars into killing themselves

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April 3, 2022
Intelligent Design
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The suggestion is that, as the caterpillars are dying from the virus, the virus manipulates them to die in a place more convenient for itself. Incidentally, "Neuroscientist: Even viruses are intelligent. Antonio Damasio says, in the excerpt from his new book, that — based on the evidence — we cannot deny viruses “some fraction” of intelligence. Researchers who study viruses, including the one that causes COVID, note similarities between viral strategies and those of insects and animals." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2022
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Tool patterns show that Neanderthals were declining before Homo sapiens arrived

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April 3, 2022
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: "Based on this evidence, the authors suggest that older Iberian Neandertal populations disappeared, taking their tool styles with them, and were replaced by different Neandertal groups using Châtelperronian tools, likely migrating from France, and these populations were in turn replaced by Homo sapiens." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2022
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Cosmology
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
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Steve Meyer on why a supposed multiverse is no answer to the extreme fine-tuning of our universe

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April 3, 2022
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Meyer on multiverse cosmologists: "The speculative cosmologies (such as inflationary cosmology and string theory) they propose for generating alternative universes invariably invoke mechanisms that themselves require fine-tuning, thus begging the question as to the origin of that prior fine-tuning." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 2, 2022
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: NASA develops a scale for assessing the chances of ET life

News
April 2, 2022
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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The idea is to give media some idea of the level of confidence in what the apparent signal might be telling us — biological activity or just chemistry? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 1, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Standard Model doubted at Inference Review

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April 1, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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In the cosmic microwave background frame, the large-scale averaged distribution of matter is also assumed to be isotropic… These assumptions are no longer tenable. Several independent data sets now argue against the existence of a cosmic rest frame. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 1, 2022
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Darwinism
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Do genetics and homology really support Darwinism where the fossil record has failed?

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April 1, 2022
Darwinism, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Klinghoffer: Even if universal common ancestry is true, there seemingly is no drawable “true tree.” As Lukas says, “Those who study homology simply assume evolution to be true, but they’ve never actually demonstrated that the ancestral evolutionary relationships between different organisms are real.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 1, 2022
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Plants
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Evolutionary genomics with Richard Buggs: Why flowering plants are a mystery

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April 1, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Talk intro: Charles Darwin was convinced that the evolution of complexity must proceed by tiny steps. Only tiny steps could be accumulated by natural selection. The process had to go slowly for it to work. Billions of years were needed. But Darwin was aware that this theory had a problem: flowers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2022
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Cambrian explosion
Ediacaran
Intelligent Design
stasis
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Those awful comb jellies betray the Darwinians again: They were even more complex than feared, starting at maybe 635 million years ago

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March 31, 2022
Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design, stasis
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They’re said to have appeared between 634 and 604 million years ago (Peterson and Butterfield, 2005) and figure in the Cambrian Explosion. Darwinians have been trying to Cancel the Cambrian Explosion since practically forever but it keeps coming back into the fact base. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Just For Fun
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As the Babylon Bee staff wait it out in Twitter Jail…

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March 31, 2022
Intelligent Design, Just For Fun
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The Babylon Bee's Twitter Account Was Suspended, But That Made Its Story Go Viral “If Twitter's goal had been to remove the harmful content, it backfired spectacularly. That original tweet, which was posted on March 15, had largely flown under the radar – yet when news that the parody site's account was suspended, the tweet suddenly went viral.” Look, it’s an updated version of “Banned in Boston,” right? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2022
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Intelligent Design
speciation
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Supposedly: Hundreds of new mammal species remain undetected

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March 31, 2022
Intelligent Design, speciation
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Look, it is probably true that hundreds of genuine species remain undetected. But in the absence of any rigorous standards for declaring a species, won’t claims like this be used merely for political purposes? Oh, and another paper: “Astonishing!: Separate species frequently hybridize!” Third paper: That’s a big problem! Give us money for extensive efforts to prevent it…. We need legislation…!" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 30, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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The curious connection between Charles Darwin and John Brown

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March 30, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Aeschliman: "After the Civil War and the death of Lincoln, 'those that stepped into the pathway marked by men like John Brown faltered and large numbers turned back,' Du Bois wrote. 'They said: He was a good man — even great, but he has no message for us today — he was a "belated [Protestant] Covenanter," an anachronism in the age of Darwin, one who gave his life to lift not only the unlifted but the unliftable.'" Read More ›