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Denyse O'Leary
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February 13, 2023
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
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Rob Sheldon responds to Sabine Hossenfelder’s loss of faith in science

Denyse O'Leary
February 13, 2023
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Sabine says 40 years of lack of progress, with 40 years of wrong predictions is not normal, and we should not normalize it. (The field is losing graduate students, which means the end is nigh.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Trust the Science! chronicles: The origin of COVID and Wuhan

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wade: Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. Read More ›
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February 11, 2023
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Intelligent Design

Asking ChatGPT about the origin of the Genetic code

Otangelo
February 11, 2023
Intelligent Design

Asking ChatGPT about the origin of the Genetic code https://reasonandscience.catsboard.com/t2363p25-the-genetic-code-insurmountable-problem-for-non-intelligent-origin#9820 It is interesting to see, how ChatGTP is trained to give answers that support naturalistic views, and even claim philosophical answers to be scientific, while they are not, and characterizing Intelligent Design as religious and philosophical answers.  Here, for example, it makes demonstrably false claims: “It is not accurate to say that the genetic code cannot be the product of natural selection. Rather, it is widely considered to be the result of natural selection and evolution”.Then, when called out, it insists: There is a significant body of evidence that supports the conclusion that the genetic code has evolved through natural selection.Then, he commits two errors at the same time: It is Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2023
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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What science media make of the 3 million year old tool assembly, recently found

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2023
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Some of us suspect that it is long past time someone shone a light on how these classifications of early humans are really created. How much is evidence and how much is underlying assumption? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2023
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extinction, Intelligent Design
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Killer whale mommies are not good DarwinMoms, it turns out

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2023
extinction, Intelligent Design
Group dynamics like this may be one reason that a species becomes critically endangered or goes extinct. Yes, human activities drive many extirpations/extinctions.* But others may be due to the adoption of behaviors that result in fewer than the needed number of offspring. Not easy to change. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2023
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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From Frontiers Science News: Neanderthals cooked and ate crabs too

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2023
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Well, that’d never do. We are all expected to be slack-jawed in amazement when what we might have expected - that is, if we didn’t buy into that Darwinian Ascent of Man stuff - turns out to be true. We are paying more for Darwinism than we might sometimes think. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2023
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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At Big Think: The weirdness of quantum mechanics forces scientists to confront philosophy

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2023
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
Marcelo Gleiser: Due to space, I will only mention one more epistemic interpretation, Quantum Bayesianism, or as it is now called, QBism. As the original name implies, QBism takes the role of an agent as central. It assumes that probabilities in quantum mechanics reflect the current state of the agent’s knowledge or beliefs about the world, as he or she makes bets about what will happen in the future. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 8, 2023
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Animal minds, Convergent evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Unique octopus genes seem to have appeared from nowhere

Denyse O'Leary
February 8, 2023
Animal minds, Convergent evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
The octopus — a highly intelligent short-lived exothermic invertebrate — should sink lectern-splintering Darwinism — but then the octo does not have tenure and many of the lectern splinterers do. That’s life. But so is finding out the facts. Read More ›