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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2022
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Creationism
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Is Stephen Jay Gould now considered a… creationist?

News
February 25, 2022
Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Overheard in the Uncommon Descent News virtual coffee room: “It figures, eh? And I’m pretty sure that was Richard Dawkins I saw passing out free copies of Behe’s A Mousetrap for Darwin on the Toronto subway.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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Asked at Evolution News: How much can evolution really accomplish?

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February 25, 2022
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Anderson: "The deeply held assumption of nearly all evolutionists is that evolution can do everything. After all, we’re here aren’t we! So there is little point in even asking the question." Actually, in religious circles, if anyone treated their sect’s creed the way Darwinians have treated evolution, they would be regarded as a cult. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Single neurons perform complex math — even in fruit flies

News
February 25, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience
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The fly’s specialized neurons either multiply or divide incoming signals in order to pinpoint the location of a sound or the direction of movement. How likely is this to happen without any intelligence behind nature at all? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2022
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Largest bacterium ever discovered is as big as a peanut

News
February 25, 2022
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Tim Standish: If prokaryotes have the capacity to develop very complex cells, why didn’t they do what eukaryotes did and turn into multicellular organisms, assuming there is some sort of fitness advantage to doing so? Why would being multicellular increase fitness in eukaryotes and not bacteria or archaea? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Getting away from the AHA! Moment re the origin of life

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February 24, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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The good news with the interdisciplinary approach is that a greater awareness of the sheer complexity of the situation will be forced on the researchers so perhaps we will be hearing fewer “lucky strike” origin of life theories. The bad news… well, they might want to talk to chemist James Tour about that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2022
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Geology
Intelligent Design
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Can a now-lost continent shed light on the evolution of mammals?

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February 24, 2022
Geology, Intelligent Design
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At ScienceDaily: A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent separating Europe from Asia that they have named Balkanatolia. At the time, it was inhabited by an endemic fauna that was very different from those of Europe and Asia. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Science
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We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update IV

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February 24, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
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As of March 13, 2022, this page will not be updated. The issues re COVID-19 have now moved to the stage where only serious enquiries into the costly Crazy will be any use. Meanwhile, we leave you with this thought: Now, as we move forward (or not), a final message: Maybe you didn’t care when ID proponents lost their jobs for not fronting Darwin. After all, you didn’t think it would spread. But it does. The COVID Crazy is what happens when “science” becomes a placeholder for a variety of wants and fears, power grabs and pursuit of profits. Now that you had to live with it – and should justifiably fear the next Crazy coming down the pike – Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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What “Trust the Science” does with massive amounts of data: Withholds it!

News
February 24, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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West goes on to point out other instances. The big question is, has secretiveness, deception, and a resulting hunger for authoritarian rule based on “science” has become a way of life in the upper echelons of a high-tech society? And then the biggest questions looms: What to do about it? At one time, it was just Darwin gibber in the schools and such-like stuff. Now it is getting more serious. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Researchers: Poisonous cyanide may have been a “harbinger of life” 4 billion years ago

News
February 23, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Note the “may have” and “could have been.” That’s where a lot of origin of life studies are, really. Nothing wrong with that, of course, as long as it is not mistaken for “the findings of science.” It's speculation, pure and simple. It would be a great hard sci-fi novel, maybe a flick. And fun for chemistry students! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2022
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Cell biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Researcher: Viruses are “smart” but the human immune system is smarter

News
February 23, 2022
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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"Viruses are very smart, that's what I love to say," Muller says. "They have lots of strategies to stick around, and they don't do a lot of damage for a very long time, because that's one way to hide from the immune system. It’s becoming harder for researchers to claim that there is no intelligence in nature. That’s probably why so many of them are embracing panpsychism. They want a way to include intelligence in nature without an intelligence outside nature. It won’t work but at least it makes more sense in relation to the evidence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2022
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Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Mutations and macroevolution: The Central Dogma of biology turns out to be… unsupported?

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February 23, 2022
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Meanwhile, in the United States, and doubtless in many other places, righteous science activists could probably get a court order against anyone teaching in a publicly funded school that evidence for macroevolution is missing. The fact that it is missing is an Unfact, so to speak. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 22, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Theoretical physicist: Quantum theory must be replaced

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February 22, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder can live with the neutrinos that are inconsistent with the Standard Model of physics but quantum uncertainties are beyond the pale. We might conclude that the universe is a stranger place than we have sometimes been led to suspect and that the amount and type of strangeness each of us can tolerate depends, to some extent, on prior commitments. But it is what it is anyway. Read More ›