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Denyse O'Leary
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May 3, 2020
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Atheism
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When beliefs don’t depend on reason…

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May 3, 2020
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
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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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April 5, 2020
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Atheism
Cell biology
Evolution
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Archaea discoverer Carl Woese’s theological reflections in old age

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April 5, 2020
Atheism, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
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It’s a good question whether Woese would have recognized the Archaea for what they were, had he not been in the habit of thinking for himself. Maybe he would have just been satisfied to shoehorn them into the conventional scheme somewhere. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design
theism
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Michael Egnor: If you care about suffering, you implicitly acknowledge God’s existence

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March 29, 2020
Intelligent Design, theism
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Egnor: Heck, if I were a mere vehicle for selfish genes evolved wholly by natural selection, I would love mass death, as long as my own genes weren’t deleted. Coronavirus is efficient — natural selection on an industrial scale. Those of us who are alive are the winners. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 15, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Religion
Science
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The beginnings of Western science vs the Galileo myth

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March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
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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
Date
March 15, 2020
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Religion
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How Christianity aided modern science

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March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
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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
Date
February 16, 2020
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Religion
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At upcoming CSS conference: “Does anyone come to Christian faith by a rational process?”

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February 16, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
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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
Date
February 2, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
theism
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ID as a big tent

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February 2, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
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Michael Denton in interview: He goes on, “As for your hint that you can only be an intelligent design [proponent] if you have some a priori theological or religious view, I disagree with that entirely because it doesn’t apply to me. Most of my life I have been pretty agnostic and would only describe myself perhaps as a backsliding Christian, though I’m not in any sense a fervent believer in a God, or the Christian God.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
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?”

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January 26, 2020
Atheism, Religion, Science, theism
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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
Date
December 29, 2019
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Atheism
Ethics
Intelligent Design
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Dawkins raises an issue without intending to: Can one “outgrow” God without “outgrowing” morality?

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December 29, 2019
Atheism, Ethics, Intelligent Design, theism
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Rebecca McLaughlin: To Dawkins’s credit, he comes dangerously close to acknowledging that religious belief is correlated with better moral outcomes—though he would like to think humans are better than that (117). He finds it rather patronizing to say, “Of course you and I are too intelligent to believe in God, but we think it would be a good idea if other people did!” (122). Read More ›