Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Tan and Stadler’s recent book tackles claims of life from the lab

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October 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Royal Truman: "The hype which accompanied the publication in 2010 of what they dubbed Synthia overlooked how nothing of relevance to support evolution was accomplished. In a nutshell, the DNA sequence of a living bacterium was duplicated synthetically, and then transferred into a living cell. This would be comparable to copying a program from one computer to a different one, and then giving the impression the entire system, including hardware and operating system, could have originated on its own." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution theorizing for solving a mystery

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October 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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At Big Think: “In order to truly appreciate Dr. Julius’ discovery, a bit of context may be in order. Unless you build up tolerance, eating spicy foods is painful. Peppers and wasabi give off a strange sensation that your mouth is on fire, and for the longest time researchers simply couldn’t figure out why this was the case. Failing to pinpoint any immediate benefits of this response, they speculated it must be the remnant of some distant evolutionary adaptation." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Finding re endangered snakes is the opposite of classic theory (plus some interesting snake evolution news)

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October 15, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
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A friend who knows the scene writes: First, their findings run counter to classic theory with respect to depression caused by inbreeding. Second, no beneficial mutations are discussed, only benign ones, and then deleterious mutations of varying degrees. Much as in Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 15, 2021
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Informatics
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: GWT: A leading consciousness theory depends on information theory

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October 15, 2021
Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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If information flow in the brain is “largely unconstrained” by anatomical wiring, it’s easy to understand why we sense that we have “minds” apart from our brains. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 14, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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Classifier of life forms Linnaeus gets the chop due to concerns about racism

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October 14, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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The friend who sent this in wonders, will the Woke come for Darwin too? It’s a bit more complicated in that case. No one, after all, strikes a serious blow against science by attacking contemporary Darwinism. Darwinism is really more about atheism than about science — and the Woke are in a war on science, not on atheism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 14, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Darwinism
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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A 2010 Oxford U Press book on “unintelligent design” seems so dated now

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October 14, 2021
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Now that the very concept of “junk DNA” is being officially retired, this all seems pretty stale. Note: Well yes, there is still Nathan Lents and Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes: Still wrong about sinuses but still writing about them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 13, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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At Bio-Complexity: An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 – Observations

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October 13, 2021
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Schulz: This third paper (Part 3) concludes the three-part study with original observations. The observations include an ontology of the exceedingly specific protein binding relationships in the flagellum. ... Finally, it is suggested that a motility organelle of this scope and scale seems profoundly unlikely to naturally evolve in the absence of foresight and mindful intent. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 13, 2021
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Biology
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Templeton flirts with finding purpose in biology — but fully natural purpose!

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October 13, 2021
Biology, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Alan Love: "Over the past several decades, though, philosophers of biology have shown that, in fact, the language of function is deeply entangled with issues related to purpose, albeit not necessarily in an inappropriate way. Instead of an inherent taint to using the language of purpose, there are interesting, unresolved issues about how function, purpose, and allied concepts are related." Guy hasn't been Canceled yet? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 13, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Science Uprising 8: Why materialism needs ape ancestors

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October 13, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Klinghoffer: It "cuts to heart of the mystery of human origins. “Human Evolution: The Monkey Bias” features geologist Casey Luskin and biologist Jonathan Wells, showing that materialism is wed to ape origins for humans because the philosophy’s whole picture of reality demands it." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 12, 2021
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Convergent evolution
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Convergent evolution seen in “hardwiring” of brains to perceive numbers

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October 12, 2021
Convergent evolution
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Crows don’t have a prefrontal cortex so, as Offord notes, [the researchers] suggested convergent evolution (convergence on a common goal rather than common ancestry) as an explanation [for having skills similar to macaques']. Even so, they say, the quality is probably innate. [Interesting, how often convergent evolution is invoked these days.] Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 12, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Religion
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Mike Keas on the myth that a big universe is a problem for religion

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October 12, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
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Quoting C. S. Lewis: “If we discover other bodies, they must be habitable or uninhabitable: and the odd thing is that both these hypotheses are used as grounds for rejecting Christianity.” Read More ›