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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
theistic evolution
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Casey Luskin: The mytho-history of Adam, Eve, and William Lane Craig

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November 15, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Long a defender of orthodoxy, Craig seems to want to prune the orthodoxies he is expected to defend. But the pruning process in which he is engaged can never really stop. The “sensible God” is most likely the one looking back at us from our medicine cabinet mirrors. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Isn’t cheating in science journals just part of survival of the fittest?

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November 15, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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David Coppedge: Nature believes that evolutionary arms races emerge from time to time, like bees against wasps, butterflies against birds, or moths against bats. Those symbioses are not right or wrong. They just are. Why are not predatory journals examples of the same phenomenon? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 14, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Astronomer: We can’t just assume countless Earths out there

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November 14, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Marcelo Gleiser notes that the starting point of the Mediocrity Principle assumes countless Earths. That’s not a conclusion from evidence. It’s bad logic. Read More ›
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Barry Arrington
Date
November 14, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design

It Was Predicted

Barry Arrington
November 14, 2021
Intelligent Design
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We now have the highest inflation in 30 years. This was entirely predictable. In fact, I predicted it. See my post from April 20, 2020. Hang on. We are just getting started. The new “infrastructure” bill that just passed is the monetary equivalent of pouring gasoline in a dumpster that is already on fire. You go from this: To this: Believe me. I am not claiming any special insight. My conclusions were a combination of paying attention and making common sense deductions from observations. If you see someone opening the spigot on a fire hydrant, you are not a genius if you predict the street is going to get really wet. If the government says they are going to dump Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 13, 2021
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Microorganisms defy expectations, produce elemental carbon

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November 13, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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At Eurekalert: “We never thought that amorphous carbon could be produced by living organisms because of the normally extreme chemical reactions that are needed to form it,” said Robert White, an emeritus professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “This is the first report of amorphous carbon being produced by any organism on Earth, and we are very interested in the possible implications it may have for the carbon cycle.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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William Lane Craig on Adam and Eve as less intelligent than us

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November 13, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Whatever else Craig’s view is, as Luskin notes, it is a far cry from the Scriptural traditional assumption that the unfallen Adam and Eve were our betters and that we have all deteriorated as a result of sin. Adopting Craig’s view is bound to have worldview consequences. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 12, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Springer Nature retracts 44 “utter nonsense” papers

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November 12, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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As we’ve noted earlier, it’s getting to the point where “Trust the science!” is sounding more ridiculous all the time. It’s like saying “Trust the mountains” or “Trust milk.” It's not a rational response to a lot of what we face just now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 12, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Rob Sheldon on lowering the standard for detecting gravitational waves

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November 12, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sheldon: "So to summarize, the absence of triple coincidences is being withheld from the paper, when in fact, it delegitimizes the entire data analysis pipeline. Now we have 4 Gravity wave detectors, and soon one in space. At what point does the lack of a triple coincidence become fatal? What observation can they make that would disprove the existence of gravity waves?" Note: In media work, we say: It takes three to make a trend. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 12, 2021
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Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Tim Standish on those five new alternate genetic codes in bacteria: It’s way more complicated than they are making out.

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November 12, 2021
Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Standish: Changing codon meaning isn’t merely a tweak. As one of the authors notes, “It’s just mind-boggling that an organism could survive that.” But he is dead wrong when he says, “Stop codon shifts are considerably less ‘dramatic’”. Changing a stop codon seems significantly more challenging than changing any other codon meaning because the mechanism for stop codon recognition is totally different and involves more than RNA-RNA interactions. Read More ›