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Denyse O'Leary
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June 25, 2021
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Physicist: Laws of thermodynamics can account for origin of life

Denyse O'Leary
June 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Jeremy England: Far from being a freak event, finding something akin to evolving lifeforms might be quite likely in the kind of universe we inhabit – especially if we know how to look for it. Read More ›
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Joshua Gidney
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June 16, 2021
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Biology, Books of interest, Cell biology, Design inference, Evolution, Food for thought, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Media, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Science, specified complexity, The Design of Life, Video
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Ten (or so) Pro-Intelligent Design Books You Should Read

Joshua Gidney
June 16, 2021
Biology, Books of interest, Cell biology, Design inference, Evolution, Food for thought, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Media, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Science, specified complexity, The Design of Life, Video

On the Design Disquisitions YouTube channel, I’ve posted a new video where I recommend several books of interest, specifically pro-ID literature. Most of the suggestions may be familiar to you, but hopefully there are a few that you’ve not read before. I also give a brief summary of the content of each book. I don’t claim that the books mentioned are necessarily the best, but I think anyone who wants to join the discussion needs to be familiar with some of these. Let me know what you would add to the list! Ten (or so) Pro-Intelligent Design Books You Should Read

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Denyse O'Leary
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May 12, 2021
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“Professor Dave” goes after eminent chemist James Tour

Denyse O'Leary
May 12, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Organic chemist Royal Truman: I found the ad hominems vulgar and no substitute for an understanding of what Prof. Tour has been explaining. The evidence Prof. D. presented was ridiculously superficial and misleading. If I were him, I’d get rid of this video, since this is a pure gift for Prof. Tour. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 30, 2021
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Granville Sewell on origin of life as a provably unsolvable problem

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin Of Life
Sewell: I cannot think of anything in all of science that can be stated with more confidence than that a few unintelligent forces of physics alone could not have rearranged the basic particles of physics into Apple iPhones. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 21, 2021
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Claim: We are making headway with the origin of life

Denyse O'Leary
April 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Origin Of Life
The article is an interesting summary of the various hypotheses on offer but it’s not like there are any big breakthroughs. However, actual breakthroughs are hardly the point. From a materialist perspective, the point is to keep up the pursuit of a random, non-intelligent origin of life. That’s all the success that is really required. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 17, 2021
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If photosynthesis could really be as old as life itself…

Denyse O'Leary
April 17, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Plants
Well, that’s good news for the hope of finding life on other planets! But researchers hoping to rush in and save Darwinism should know that if the earliest organisms could photosynthesize, an intelligent origin of life is virtually certain. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 15, 2021
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A contradiction in Charles Marshall’s “white smoker” origin-of-life argument?

Denyse O'Leary
April 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Paul Nelson: ... unless I misunderstand (always a live possibility), we’re back to postulating a “freak environment,” meaning the OOL explanation is a one-off event after all. The chemical determinism of hundreds of thousands, or millions of alkaline chimneys operating in parallel disappears, and we’re back to one very lucky setting. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 5, 2021
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New origin of life thesis: Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) wasn’t actually a single cell

Denyse O'Leary
April 5, 2021
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Marshall favors horizontal gene transfer as a key method of early development because ancestor–descendant evolution is a “very slow” (42:25) evolutionary process. HGT among multiple independent lineages, by contrast, allows a “vast exchange of information,” thus sharing innovations and leading to faster development. Okay. And in the midst of all that, Dawkins’s Selfish Gene got lost in a crowd somewhere and was never heard from again. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 1, 2021
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Minimal synthetic cell turns out to be an argument against naturalist origin of life, says biomedical engineer

Denyse O'Leary
April 1, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Rob Stadler: Abiogenesis [random origin of life] advocates claim that life started with "protocells" because extant life is far too complex to have started by natural processes. But, all of our efforts to simplify extant life to produce a "protocell" have shown us that extant life is about as simple as it can be. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 8, 2021
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Researchers: Surface bubbles could have somehow become Earth’s first cells. Hey, James Tour will LOVE this — um, not!

Denyse O'Leary
March 8, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Origin of life and Darwinian evolution seem to attract the airiest, flimsiest speculations. Is it just a coincidence or could there be a reason for that? Read More ›