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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 5, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Science
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Is “social justice” destroying objectivity in science?

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January 5, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
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Prediction: The Darwinists will knuckle to the post-facts, post-objectivity rampage, leaving the non-Darwinists to defend science. This is your monkey brain on survival of the fittest: They will persecute Darwinians who speak out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 2, 2020
Categories
Astronomy
Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Science
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Harvard astronomer tells us why ultra-complex physics theories come to exist

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January 2, 2020
Astronomy, Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
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They are not principally data-driven. “In today’s fierce job market, fledgling scientists sometimes attempt to impress their senior colleagues with lengthy derivations marked by challenging mathematical complexity.” If he thinks evidence is important, that should rule out the multiverse. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
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?

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December 31, 2019
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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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
Date
December 30, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
Philosophy
Science
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Michael Egnor sympathizes with people who think the universe is conscious

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December 30, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
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Michaael Egnor: There is no doubt that consciousness is a fundamental property of animal and human existence. As philosopher Philip Goff notes, a philosophy that cannot plausibly account for it cannot be correct. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 22, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Religion
Science
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At Aeon: Religion, science, and post-modernism

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December 22, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion, Science
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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
Date
December 17, 2019
Categories
Atheism
Climate change
Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explains why new atheism was doomed to die young

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December 17, 2019
Atheism, Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Anyone who didn’t immediately accept all this new atheist rubbish as Big Insight was a moron, right? But Dr. Egnor goes on to warn that reason will not emerge victorious from a horse laugh at the declining new atheists’ expense. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 15, 2019
Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
theism
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Asked at The Scientist: “Does science describe experience or truth?”

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December 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, theism
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As it happens, the loss of theism puts science in an impossible position. A traditional monotheist (and probably most deists) would assume that God creates according to logic and reason and that the scientist can indeed find out the truth by “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” But otherwise, why? Loss of the theistic perspective leads directly to the current demands that science credentials and acknowledgements be apportioned on the basis of fairness as if they were public goods of some kind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 14, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Science
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Would Hooker, Boyle, Pascal, and Newton all be out of work today?

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December 14, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
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The original main reason that science was so largely the preserve, for centuries, of well-to-do European men (many of whom were clergy or religious brothers) is circumstantial: They were available in considerable numbers in the right places at the right time. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 8, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Religion
Science
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What difference did Protestantism make to modern science?

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December 8, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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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 ›