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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
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At Mind Matters News: 4: Egnor now tries to find out what Dillahunty actually knows…

Denyse O'Leary
September 28, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
Michael Egnor: What I want to establish before that is that your arguments are not based on any actual knowledge. You don’t know the arguments for God’s existence. So your claim that they’re not true… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 25, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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At The Scientist: “Science must combat dogmatism”

Denyse O'Leary
September 25, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Easier said than done. Sadly, when we are told primly to “trust the science,” it is nearly always the case that the persons demanding the trust means by “the science” whatever science happens to support their position. One thing the COVID pandemic did was make a far greater proportion of the public aware of that meaning of “trust the science” than was the case in the past. For better or worse. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 23, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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Trust in science: How the replication crisis got started

Denyse O'Leary
September 23, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
Sarah Perry: In my experience, it is the norm, rather than the exception, for cited claims in popular science books and review papers to misstate the claims of their sources. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 23, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
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At Mind Matters News 2. A neurosurgeon’s ten proofs for the existence of God

Denyse O'Leary
September 23, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
In a lively debate at Theology Unleashed, Christian surgeon Michael Egnor and atheist broadcaster Matt Dillahunty clash over “Does God exist?” Egnor starts off is opening arguments. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 21, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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At The Ness: Science is not Just Philosophy

Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wait. If atheist neurologist blogger Steven Novella is right, the science presenters in media must be speaking a different language from the rest of us. The impression that he says they don’t convey (“insight into the ultimate nature of reality”), they in fact do — by a variety of means. That’s okay, of course, until the whipped cream hits the fan. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 21, 2021
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At Lancet: An appeal for an honest debate in science about the origin of COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
We wish Jacques van Helden and his co-authors good luck getting an honest discussion going. It’s not like China is going to become transparent anytime soon. In any event, few virus researchers would want to be told bluntly that, because gain-of-function research in viruses can go badly wrong, they now face controls. Some nations wouldn’t heed the controls. And nature never responds - on her own - to calls for clarification. Most likely, whatever happened with COVID will need to happen again a few more times until a pattern develops. Then we’ll see. It doesn’t help that Lancet itself became politicized in recent years. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 19, 2021
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At least, the “science of obesity” is now a legitimate topic of discussion

Denyse O'Leary
September 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
Another well-known science writer, Ross Pomeroy, says Gary Taubes is wrong. It is a good thing we get to hear both sides of the argument. That is not happening often enough. People who complain about popular doubt or denial of science are too often among the first to demand that only their side of the argument be published — thus fueling the very thing they complain about. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
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When people claim that “the science” says this or that…

Denyse O'Leary
September 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
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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Joshua Gidney
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September 9, 2021
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Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Food for thought, ID Foundations, Information, Intelligent Design, Natural selection, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science, specified complexity, Video
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New Video Presentation on YouTube: Intelligent Design & Scientific Conservatism

Joshua Gidney
September 9, 2021
Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Food for thought, ID Foundations, Information, Intelligent Design, Natural selection, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science, specified complexity, Video

I have recently posted a new video on my Intelligent Design YouTube channel. In this video I discuss several areas in the philosophy of science and modern evolutionary biology, and their relationship to ID. These thoughts were prompted initially by an interesting paper by philosopher of science Jeffrey Koperski ‘Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design, and Two Good Ones’. Koperski thinks that one good way to critique ID is to point out that it violates principles like ‘scientific conservatism’. Because there are several potential naturalistic mechanisms on the table, even if orthodox neo-Darwinism fails, ID is an unnecessary proposal. To turn to design explanations would be to adjust our theories too drastically. I argue against this claim, concluding that Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 6, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science

The religious dimensions of Darwinian evolution theory

Denyse O'Leary
September 6, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
What about this? Darwinism was the way an imperial British culture justified its rule over the “lesser breeds without the law?” That really was how they did see it all. And Darwinism was perfect for the purpose. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 5, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

Science, science denial, and popular neuroses

Denyse O'Leary
September 5, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
There is a finger on the scale! Suppose, listening to the evidence around COVID-19, I reasonably believed that it originated in a lab in Wuhan (China) which was doing experiments that the local people were not qualified to be doing? So then, are the bureaucrats “pro-science” and the rest of us “anti-science”? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 3, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Philosopher: Darwinism vs. evidence was always a sore point

Denyse O'Leary
September 3, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Laszlo Bencze: As Gertrude Himmelfarb (who did more than any other critic to unmask Darwin’s rhetorical evasions) noted, Darwin’s technique here and elsewhere was “to assume that by acknowledging the difficulty, he had somehow exorcized it,” coming up with a faux confession aimed at propitiating critical dissent. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 30, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, theism
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At Mind Matters News: Is brain science helping us understand our belief in God?

Denyse O'Leary
August 30, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, theism
"Ferguson is careful to emphasize that he is not trying to disprove the reality of religious experience:" Oh no. For sure, why would anyone think that? ;) Egnor: The best way to understand religious experience is to have one. Researchers who are looking for a way around that problem don’t produce useful research. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 23, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: Quantum physicist shows how consciousness may create reality

Denyse O'Leary
August 23, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
In his argument against physicalism (physical nature is all there is), Tim Andersen draws from the 19th-century philosopher Schopenhauer the concept of Will as the basis of all reality. Read More ›