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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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When people claim that “the science” says this or that…

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September 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
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Discussing the recent essay by medical statistician John Ioannidis on the was politicization and shoddy research around COVID-19 are corrupting science, philosopher Edward Feser focuses on a couple of his points, including this one, “the deleterious role that social media have played.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 15, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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World’s oldest art raises question: Is it art?

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September 15, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Researchers would not be asking if it is art if it were not so old (between 169,000 and 226,000). The underlying assumption seems to be that humans did not think imaginatively in those days. The evidence seems to contradict the evolutionary assumption. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 14, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
science education
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Was Thomas Henry Huxley the first science journalist?

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September 14, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
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What Huxley was marketing was not a correct analysis of the cause of the plague but one that promoted materialism. Today, for example, we constantly hear similar stuff like - just for example - “science is closing in on the human mind” or “apes think like people.” They can’t help it, of course, but Huxley’s career might help us understand better how it got started. Read More ›
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Barry Arrington
Date
September 14, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design

No Middle Ground

Barry Arrington
September 14, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Neitzsche’s conclusions are sound, some would argue inexorable, if one grants his fundamental premise, that God is dead. The “good” beyond good and evil is the strong man, the superior man (ubermensch), imposing his will on the weak. In a world without God, there is only power, and those who have it and those who do not. A strong man brutally subjugates a weak man or even a weak people. That is good because it is the natural course of the world once the strong man throws off the fetters of Christianity’s unnatural “slave morality.” You can have God and the transcendent moral principles that flow from His Being. Or you can have the ubermensch. There is no middle ground. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 13, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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A new open access paper offers an approach to cancer that sees past Darwin

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September 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Researchers: Although neo-Darwinian (and less often Lamarckian) dynamics are regularly invoked to interpret cancer’s multifarious molecular profiles, they shine little light on how tumorigenesis unfolds and often fail to fully capture the frequency and breadth of resistance mechanisms. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 10, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
Peer review
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Statistician Ioannidis on how COVID wrecked science

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September 10, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
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Readers may remember John Ioannidis. His point here is that getting more people involved with science doesn’t always work: "A lack of sharing and openness allowed a top medical journal to publish an article in which 671 hospitals allegedly contributed data that did not exist, and no one noticed this outright fabrication before publication." Read More ›