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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 28, 2021
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Books of interest
Fine tuning
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Privileged Address: An excerpt from Neil Thomas’s Taking Leave of Darwin

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August 28, 2021
Books of interest, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Neil Thomas: Through the lens of a celestial telescope, it is true, one can see little but the unfeeling immensity of that unremittingly hostile universe invoked by [Bertrand] Russell, but if we look around us here on Earth we can see a planet which seems entirely discontinuous with the rest of the observable cosmos and abounding in a host of benign phenomena so numerous that they tend to go largely unnoticed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 27, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is methodological naturalism racist?

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August 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Shedinger: As the authors note, African Americans consistently score higher on surveys of religiosity than the general population. This will not be surprising to anyone familiar with the African American church tradition. But African American undergraduates seem to be aware of the absolute requirement that EEB research be done in accordance with methodological (and de facto metaphysical) naturalism. Their religious inclinations will therefore be in conflict with the culture within the EEB community and it will be difficult for them to feel a sense of belonging in that community. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 27, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Materialism hangs on to science now — not by evidence but by politics

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August 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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A quibble with Brian Miller’s analysis above: It’s not “philosophy” as such that fronts Darwin's stranglehold on the discussion of evolution. It’s the power to cause career ruin. That’s the stick end of politics, not of philosophy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 27, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Blind mouse pups prepared for sight

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August 27, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researcher: “I love this paper. It blew my mind,” says David Berson, who studies the visual system at Brown University and was not involved in the research. “What it implies is that evolution has built a visual system that can simulate the patterns of activity that it will see later when it’s fully mature and the eyes are open, and that [the simulated pattern] in turn shapes the development of the nervous system in a way that makes it better adapted to seeing those patterns. . . . That’s staggering.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 25, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Medical science: “Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?”

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August 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Michael Cook: The gold standard for fraud is a Japanese researcher in anaesthetics, Yoshitaka Fujii, of Toho University. By the time he came unstuck about 10 years ago, he had published around 200 articles – and 183 of them have been retracted because he had falsified the data. “If someone can publish 183 fabricated trials,” said Roberts, “the problem is not with him, the problem is with the system.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Epilepsy: If you follow the science, materialism is dead

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August 24, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
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Egnor: on the issue of intellectual seizures, the fact that there has not been a single seizure in recorded medical history out of 250 million seizures, a quarter of a billion seizures, that has evoked abstract intellectual content, Maybe the next one will, but I’m not going to bet on it… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
stasis
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At Mind Matters News: Do brains really evolve? The horseshoe crab’s brain didn’t

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August 24, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, stasis
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At Science News: "The preserved central nervous system lends insight into the ancient crab’s behavior, the researchers say. Because the fossil brain is so similar to the brains of modern horseshoe crabs, Bicknell says, it’s safe to say the ancient animal’s walking, breathing and even feeding habits were probably similar to horseshoe crabs’ today, including eating with their legs. " Read More ›