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Denyse O'Leary
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March 25, 2022
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At Mind Matters News: Imaging studies fail badly at linking brain and behavior

Denyse O'Leary
March 25, 2022
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Aha! news stories about what brain imaging reveals about human behavior are probably based on studies whose findings would not be confirmed by further research. Such studies, often of psychiatric conditions, were the Next Step for brain imaging: showing that human behavior is based on simple, identifiable brain states. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 24, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
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We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update IV

Denyse O'Leary
February 24, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science

As of March 13, 2022, this page will not be updated. The issues re COVID-19 have now moved to the stage where only serious enquiries into the costly Crazy will be any use. Meanwhile, we leave you with this thought: Now, as we move forward (or not), a final message: Maybe you didn’t care when ID proponents lost their jobs for not fronting Darwin. After all, you didn’t think it would spread. But it does. The COVID Crazy is what happens when “science” becomes a placeholder for a variety of wants and fears, power grabs and pursuit of profits. Now that you had to live with it – and should justifiably fear the next Crazy coming down the pike – Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
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We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update III

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
So much news worldwide now. I’ll just keep adding to it, putting new items at the top so you can keep checking back. I will try to group them loosely by topic where possible. This post is stickied for now so news news added on other topics is below this post. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 28, 2021
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Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
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Jerry Coyne on the war on math, science, in New Zealand – and falling scores

Denyse O'Leary
December 28, 2021
Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Coyne doesn’t dispute teaching Indigenous beliefs in a cultural class. But he may be at a major disadvantage because - if many years of his blogging are any guide - he wants science taught as a branch of naturalist atheism. Thus, the question arises, why shouldn’t we teach naturalist atheism too as an outcropping of Western culture? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 21, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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To what extent is the science we must learn at school materialist propaganda?

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Here’s a question: Given what we (hope we) know today about the origin and development of life forms, would anyone today propose neo-Darwinism (natural selection) in any of its forms as an explanation - if they hadn't already had to accept it anyway in order to get to where they are today? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Why neuroscientist Mark Solms is no materialist

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Mark Solms: Information, in neuroscience, is a crucial concept, and it’s very hard to think about quantum physics and the big questions that are unsolved that flow from it without the concept of information — which, I hasten to draw your attention to the fact, is not matter. I’m not a materialist for exactly that reason. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2021
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Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Woke atheist rejects the New Atheists — not Woke enough

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2021
Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Take in for a moment that the editors of an allegedly serious publication actually sponsored an article claiming that all of these prominent atheists have “merged with the far right.” Remember that the next time someone starts caterwauling about the need to suppress conspiracy theories. We can direct them to Salon’s website for their best convenience… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Why panpsychism is starting to push out naturalism

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Panpsychism eliminates the crudities of Darwinism. For example, if consciousness is assumed to be a natural development in the most complex life forms, human consciousness would have happened, whether it improved survival or not. Darwinian controversies on the topic become pointless or anyway, much less significant. Perhaps that’s why a classical Darwinian, who needs to see human consciousness as a simple but controversial accident, views panpsychism with hostility. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen Meyer on “the frailty of scientific atheism”

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Materialist atheism is — you read it here first — slowly being destroyed by panpsychism. Panpsychism (everything is conscious) makes more sense. Recall Egnor’s Principle: If your hypothesis is that even electrons are conscious, your hypothesis is likely wrong. But if your hypothesis is that the human mind is an illusion, then… you don’t have a hypothesis. That’s slowly killing "scientific" atheism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
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Eric Holloway at Mind Matters News: Can the “physical world” be wholly physical? Physical at all?

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
The Epicurean philosophy of pure physicalism is attractive to many but the logic of it, followed consistently, refutes itself. Read More ›