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Denyse O'Leary
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June 2, 2020
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Asked at Areo Magazine: Did the Catholic Church give birth to science?

Denyse O'Leary
June 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
The Church recovered the classical academy—Plato and Aristotle and so forth. As for unfettered debate, under university atheism, it is becoming nearly extinct in many faculties, due to disbelief in the reality of the mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 3, 2020
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
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When beliefs don’t depend on reason…

Denyse O'Leary
May 3, 2020
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
Miriam Schoenfeld: Let’s work with a hypothetical example. Suppose I’m raised among atheists and firmly believe that God doesn’t exist. I realise that, had I grown up in a religious community, I would almost certainly have believed in God. … UD News: An alternative approach is Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways, as explained by Michael Egnor: Arguments for God’s existence can be demonstrated by the ordinary method of scientific inference. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 15, 2020
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The beginnings of Western science vs the Galileo myth

Denyse O'Leary
March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
Lindberg: "It is little wonder, given this kind of scholarly backing, that the ignorance and degradation of the Middle Ages has become an article of faith among the general public, achieving the status of invulnerability merely by virtue of endless repetition." And Bimbette Fluffarelli, talk show hostess, learned it sixteenth-hand at school… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 15, 2020
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How Christianity aided modern science

Denyse O'Leary
March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
The troubling part is that many sources won’t talk about this stuff because it is “religious” but they don’t mind parroting some flapdoodle from a village atheist, of whom it might be said that to call him merely ill-informed would be to shower him with unearned praise. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 1, 2020
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Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
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A just-so story about the origin of religious beliefs

Denyse O'Leary
March 1, 2020
Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
Some of us would be more impressed if the authors of this type of work attributed their OWN beliefs to these types of sources. How about this: Belief that there is no design in nature comes from spending a lot of time reading and writing boring, useless papers and sitting in boring, useless meetings, Eventually, homo academicus evolved to believe that all nature is like that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 23, 2020
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Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Religion
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String theorist’s philosophy of life – Time’s reviewer laps it up

Denyse O'Leary
February 23, 2020
Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Religion
Some reviewers almost make us forget that string theory was supposed to be science, not religion. Get a load of this review of string theorist Brian Greene’s new book, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Penguin 2020) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 16, 2020
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At upcoming CSS conference: “Does anyone come to Christian faith by a rational process?”

Denyse O'Leary
February 16, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
For example, Günter Bechly: “Altogether, I suggest that the cumulative evidence against materialism and for theism is simply overwhelming. I became a Christian theist not in spite of being a scientist but because of it.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 2, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
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Are Christians just “less hireable” in science?

Denyse O'Leary
February 2, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
Note: “Taken together, these studies indicate that perceived bias against Christians in science may contribute to underrepresentation of Christians but actual bias against Christians in science may be restricted to a specific type of Christianity that scientists call fundamentalist and/or evangelical.” Well, Christians pay taxes for science and it’s really up to them to launch actions against actual bias incidents. No? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 1, 2020
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Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Some people think they can tell us what space aliens will be like

Denyse O'Leary
February 1, 2020
Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
So if aliens exist, they must be just like us because… evolution. This is a religion. Didn't say it was a bad religion. But definitely a religion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 26, 2020
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Atheism, Religion, Science, theism
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Peter Atkins vs Jonathan McLatchie debate: “Is there a God?”

Denyse O'Leary
January 26, 2020
Atheism, Religion, Science, theism
A friend writes to comment on Atkins’s “smarmy condescension.” Indeed. In an age when serious scientists wonder whether the universe itself is conscious—because they cannot otherwise account for intelligence in nature— it’s not clear what smarmy condescension would achieve. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 16, 2020
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Biology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
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Theoretical biologist quit over growing panpsychism, it turns out

Denyse O'Leary
January 16, 2020
Biology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
In 2012, Italian theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri resigned as editor of the journal Biosemiotics because he felt that research in this area had become unscientific. Read More ›