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Intelligent Design

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Barry Arrington
Date
January 21, 2022
Categories
Intelligent Design

Materialists Know What They Say is False. They Say it Anyway

Barry Arrington
January 21, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Otherwise, they would have to give up their materialism. Recently I posted about a woman who was charged with attempted murder when she put a newborn baby in a garbage bag and tossed him in a dumpster to die. Here is an exchange I had with Seversky regarding that post: Barry: Is it objectively evil to put a baby in a garbage bag and throw him in a dumpster or is it just your subjective preference not to do so? Seversky: the overwhelming majority regard dumping newborns in dumpsters as being evil Barry: Suppose the overwhelming majority regarded dumping newborns in dumpsters as good. Would it then be good? Seversky: Presumably, it would be good in the minds of the Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 20, 2022
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Atheism
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Michael Ruse lecture makes interesting admission re Darwinism and atheists, agnostics

News
January 20, 2022
Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Darwin's theory, Ruse writes meant that " the way was opened for sound non-belief, although almost always non-believers – agnostics and atheists – take their stance less on science and more on grounds of theology and philosophy." Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 20, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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Commentator Vox Day has some harsh words for E.O’ Wilson’s detractors at Scientific American

News
January 20, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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The thing is, when Wilson was alive, Darwinians denied the racism or insisted it was irrelevant and that Darwin’s sacred cause was to oppose slavery, yada yada … Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 17, 2022
Categories
Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Did the octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?

News
January 17, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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It's an interesting fact that intelligence in animals is not nearly as firmly fixed in a hierarchy of evolution as we used to believe. Octopuses are extreme outliers and we are only just beginning to get to know them. Read More ›