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Denyse O'Leary
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January 12, 2020
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Will home-schooled Christian students be the science leaders of tomorrow?

Denyse O'Leary
January 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, science education
It will be interesting indeed if the legacy of the thought traditions that provided a basis for science in the western world ended up being carried on mainly by devout Christians. While the official science world continues to mires and beclown itself in a war on objectivity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 12, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
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Is Buddhism really the most “science-friendly religion”?

Denyse O'Leary
January 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
Thompson's point is applicable beyond Buddhism. “Theistic” evolutionists, for example, start with the premise that God wouldn’t “create” anything. That is really a message about God, not about nature, and it is bound to be a church-closer. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 31, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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Ethan Siegel asks at Forbes, Did God create the universe?

Denyse O'Leary
December 31, 2019
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
Siegel makes an interesting comparison with, say, Sabine Hossenfelder. He does great graphics but to say that he is not a deep thinker is to shower him with imprudent praise. By contrast, we go on listening to Hossenfelder with great interest, whether the graphics are good or not. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 29, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
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Historian: Christianity has been the world’s greatest engine for moral reform

Denyse O'Leary
December 29, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
Thomas Kidd: To cite just one, sociologist Robert Woodberry showed in a landmark 2012 article that Christian missionaries were responsible for much of the global spread of cultural values such as “religious liberty, mass education, mass printing, newspapers, voluntary organizations, and colonial reforms” from Latin America to East Asia. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 22, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion, Science
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At Aeon: Religion, science, and post-modernism

Denyse O'Leary
December 22, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion, Science
McLeish: Much of ‘postmodern’ philosophical thinking and its antecedents through the 20th century appear at best to have no contact with science at all, and at worst to strike at the very root-assumptions on which natural science is built, such as the existence of a real world, and the human ability to speak representationally of it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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What difference did Protestantism make to modern science?

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
In reality, it is mixed. For example, consider eugenics. The Catholic Church always opposed that dreadful scourge of people armed with strong opinions passing laws compelling some of their neighbors to be sterilized. When they did so, these eugenicists were acting explicitly as the priests of science. That was their idea of a vocation and Protestant churches largely supported it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion, theism
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Decline in giving is linked to decline in religious belief

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion, theism
If you believe that we evolved randomly and that the world has always been governed by Darwinian survival after that, you would only give if you felt like it. The “giving gene”? The “evolutionary psychology of giving?” Sure. That'll work. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
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Biblical archeology gets a boost from AI

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
As with the Dead Sea Scrolls, when they did decipher it, using AI, they found it was the same Scriptural texts as elsewhere. Which reinforces the fact that ancient peoples were not in the habit of simply rewriting the Scriptures now and then according to taste. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion, Science
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Jerry Coyne bashes the Templeton Foundation, based on new information

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion, Science
The odd thing is that one part of the Templeton group is also funding things that should interest Jerry, for example the quest for an explanation of consciousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 20, 2019
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Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Who’s throwing stones at “Nature’s Prophet”? (Wallace)

Denyse O'Leary
November 20, 2019
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
A reviewer attacking Michael Flannery, author of a book on Darwin's co-theorist Wallace re his Discovery Institute ties, actually wrote a book with a serious racist in 2003. Of course, rules Darwinists dream up never apply to themselves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 14, 2019
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Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Peter Boghossian: Culture War II unites Christians and atheists

Denyse O'Leary
November 14, 2019
Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
Boghossian: In Culture War 2.0, correspondence theories of truth aren’t just dead: truth itself is inaccessible to people who do not possess the right identity characteristics. Read More ›
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October 14, 2019
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Academic Freedom, Atheism, Defending our Civilization, News Highlights, Religion
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US AG Barr on the importance of religious liberty

kairosfocus
October 14, 2019
Academic Freedom, Atheism, Defending our Civilization, News Highlights, Religion

Here (as updated): Money clip: The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety. It reflects the framers’ belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government . . . ” Food for thought. END F/N, U/D: Prepared text, found. I think he mostly read the speech, let us clip and discuss below. PS: First, a different view on political spectra (than where one sat in the French legislature 200 years ago or thereabouts): Next, Aquinas on law, as summarised: Third, Schaeffer’s line of despair analysis, as adjusted and extended: Let’s add on straight vs spin