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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Big Bang
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Physicist Brian Miller reflects on claims that the universe had no beginning

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October 19, 2021
Big Bang
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Miller: Sutter asserts that Bento and Zalel’s article offers a credible response against the evidence for a cosmic beginning. Yet this claim is only based on what might be possible in the realm of the imagination. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Laszlo Bencze responds to the view that evil is the absence of good

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October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Bencze: I have found that all people, even diehard progressives,agree that there are some things that are prohibited. They might balk at homophobia. Surely that can’t be permitted? ... So, if not all things are permitted, then, logically speaking, god must exist. In this way the existence of evil points to god. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Naturalism
theism
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Egnor vs. Dillahunty: 11. Is evil in the world simply the absence of good?

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October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theism
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Egnor: "The Thomistic understanding of evil is that it’s an absence of good. It’s not a thing that exist independently in itself. It’s a deficit of goodness. God’s creation necessarily fall short of goodness because if he created something perfectly good, He would just be creating himself. " Read More ›
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Granville Sewell
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October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design

Science as a set-up

Granville Sewell
October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design
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My 2015 book “In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design” includes a couple of chapters dealing with the “compensation” argument (anything can happen in an open system without violating the second law of thermodynamics), a chapter on the big bang, which includes the differential equation modeling the expansion of the universe that shows a singularity in the finite past, a chapter on the fine tuning of the laws of physics, and a chapter on quantum mechanics. The chapter on quantum mechanics shows that not only is human behavior not completely determined by physics, but even the individual particles of physics have a sort of “free will” of their own, even their behavior is not completely predictable, even in Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 18, 2021
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Christian Darwinism
Intelligent Design
theistic evolution
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John West on the tragedy of Francis Collins’s model of science and faith

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October 18, 2021
Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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If Collins stands for “theistic evolution,” reading about it has made some of us feel better about atheistic evolution. At least the atheistic evolutionists don’t pretend that they think human beings have intrinsic value. You know where you are with them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Big Bang
Intelligent Design
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Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and Parallel Universes nonsense a response to Steve Meyer?

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October 17, 2021
Big Bang, Intelligent Design
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Now that Miller mentions it, several other anti-Big Bang tales have appeared recently. Perhaps the reason that all these stories seem extra-silly is that the authors are rattled. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Scripture scholar John Oswalt weighs in critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam

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October 17, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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We are closing in on an important fact here: Craig’s Historical Adam is the true ancestor of the Historical Jesus. Now it all begins to make sense. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Darwinism
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Hank Hanegraff interviews Neil Thomas – a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin

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October 17, 2021
Darwinism
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From podcast info: As he studied the work of Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: “Beware! You have been fooled!” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 17, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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“Junk DNA” is expressed differently in chimps and humans — and makes a difference in brain types

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October 17, 2021
'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At GenEng and BioTech mag: "In a new study, stem cell scientists at the Lund University, Sweden, explore the role of non-coding regions of the genome—previously deemed to be functionless “junk” DNA—and find humans and chimpanzees use a part of their non-coding DNA in different ways. This they claim affects how and when the human brain develops." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 16, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
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Ethan Siegel: The multiverse (and another you) are “all but inevitable”

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October 16, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Essentially, Siegel, the person who has Big Problems with something as widely accepted as the Big Bang, is quite prepared to accept all this far out stuff. That is where the naturalist project is just now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 16, 2021
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Astronomy
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What’s the story with the strange signals from the galaxy’s center?

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October 16, 2021
Astronomy
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Astronomers: “The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.” (We will soon be in a better position to find out what it is because the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope will be commissioned within the decade.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 16, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Reptiles evolved, de-evolved, re-evolved teeth

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October 16, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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In short, when researchers actually looked at reptile tooth history, it was hardly a simple evolution tale at all. It seems as if there are plans that life forms can access, perhaps within their genomes. But how do they trigger the needed changes, as opposed to just going extinct? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 16, 2021
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Cosmology
Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser: The “Copernican Principle” isn’t science…

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October 16, 2021
Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Physics
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We’ve only begun to point huge telescopes at exoplanets. There are too many unknowns to be sure of our status, he thinks. Read More ›