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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 2, 2012

Categories
'Junk DNA'
News}

Junk DNA: “The Darwinist bloggers are defending a ragged flag on a rapidly shrinking ice floe”

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October 2, 2012

'Junk DNA', News

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"... insisting that the vast ocean around them is nothing to worry about." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 2, 2012

Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
News}

Did Curiosity rover find a dried-up river bed on Mars?

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October 2, 2012

Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News

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"water is definitely the top contender – although one team member likes to joke that, for all we know, the liquid could have been beer." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 2, 2012

Categories
Evolutionary psychology
News}

Human evolution: Are we all “running apps from Fred Flintstone’s not-very-smartphone”?

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October 2, 2012

Evolutionary psychology, News

2}

“Work out what those apps are—so the theory goes—and you will see what the mind was designed to do.” Not, says Gottlieb Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 2, 2012

Categories
'Junk DNA'
News}

Todd C.Wood: ENCODE data tempts some to anticreationist conspiracy?

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October 2, 2012

'Junk DNA', News

2}

Darwin’s men were misled by their own beliefs into adopting the highly improbable idea that most of the genome is junk and now they can just stew in it. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 2, 2012

Categories
Cosmology
News
Physics}

He said it: Impact of Americans’ waning interest in fundamental physics research

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October 2, 2012

Cosmology, News, Physics

3}

"But the fact that the United States has not provided an equivalent machine to check CERN’s results—or even to have beaten them to the punch—is discouraging." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Human evolution
News}

Human evolution: Dental filling found from 6500 years ago

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October 1, 2012

Human evolution, News

1}

"It adds to evidence that Neolithic communities had a surprisingly sophisticated knowledge of dentistry." Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Darwinism
Media
News}

Friends are talking about the Person of Interest premier September 27, 2012 where …

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October 1, 2012

Darwinism, Media, News

1}

... the villain was spouting stuff about humans being accidents full of “bad code.” Like Darwin’s followers’ junk DNA before ENCODE? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
News}

Mouse can regenerate tissue like reptile

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October 1, 2012

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, News

2}

"The African spiny mouse appears to regenerate ear tissue in much the way that a salamander regrows a limb that has been lost to a predator, ..." Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Academic Freedom
Culture
News}

Wikipedia says author not acceptable source for his own work

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October 1, 2012

Academic Freedom, Culture, News

2}

Just another reason why the News desk here rarely or never uses Wikipedia as a source. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
News
Tree of life}

One wonders what the next Tree of Life will look like …

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October 1, 2012

Intelligent Design, News, Tree of life

1}

We can tell that a field is in ferment when its visuals alter dramatically. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Extraterrestrial life
News}

Coffee!! Will the space aliens retweet us if we promise to all keep the faith?

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October 1, 2012

Extraterrestrial life, News

2}

"Four to six weeks after Friday’s event, the planet will move into alignment (just barely) with the transmitter. " Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Culture
News
Science}

Nobel Prizes that will probably never get awarded

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October 1, 2012

Culture, News, Science

2}

Shapiro won't get the prize because, as the BioLogos people say, all truth is Darwin’s truth. Or something like that. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
News
Origin Of Life}

RNA world subjected to the worst insult ever among the origin of life set

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October 1, 2012

Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life

1}

It’s hard to do origin of life relying on dumb chemicals to do the originating, but it’s been an interesting few decades imagining things. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Neuroscience
News}

Neuroscience, pseudoscience, neurobollocks …

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October 1, 2012

Neuroscience, News

1}

"The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism " Read More ›

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Date
September 11, 2012

Categories
News
Off Topic}

A 9-11 Memorial, on 9-11 + 11 years

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September 11, 2012

News, Off Topic

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Today is the 11th Anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Let us pause for a minute of silence, and remember. (My personal memorial is here.)