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Denyse O'Leary
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October 5, 2021
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Culture
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Michael Egnor: The atheists’ Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence = nonsense

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October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Egnor: The Divine Hiddenness argument is nonsensical because divine hiddenness is inherent in the nature of the Creator and the creature, as noted above. Furthermore, the atheist Divine Hiddenness argument seems to imply a bizarre inference: if the disbelief of even one person in the world disproves the existence of God, then it stands to reason that the belief in God by that person — that one holdout — would prove His existence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 5, 2021
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Vox on why you can’t trust Big Science

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October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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If you “trust” these science honchoes at all after this episode… well, COVID-19 is not as serious a threat as wilful stupidity. But going forward, another question looms: How much of “settled science” that has never been subjected to this type of careful outside scrutiny would likewise collapse? What ELSE don’t we know and what difference would it make in various science arenas? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 4, 2021
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Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Weak Anthropic Principle? Not an explanation but a tautology!

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October 4, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Egnor: The Weak Anthropic Principle, which is widely held by atheists, is meaningless: Only in a universe that permits the existence of intelligent beings can intelligent beings exist — i.e., only a universe with intelligent beings can be a universe with intelligent beings. The Weak Anthropic Principle is a tautology. And a tautology is not an explanation. It’s merely a sentence in which the predicate is the same as the subject. It’s meaningless. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 4, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Our Universe Survived a Firing Squad and It’s Just an Accident?

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October 4, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Ola Hössjer: According to the Weak Anthropic Principle, we should not be surprised to live in a universe that harbors life. But I should add that, in our paper, "Cosmological Tuning Fine or Coarse?," we compute or give an upper bound for the probability of a randomly generated universe to have a certain constant of nature, ending up within its life-permitting interval. We take the Weak Anthropic Principle into account — and still we come up with small probabilities for certain constant of natures or certain ratios or constants of nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 3, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
theism
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Michael Egnor: Science can and does point to God’s existence

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October 3, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, theism
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Egnor: Note that science studies natural effects and does not and cannot specify whether the causes must be natural or supernatural. To constrain science to the search for natural causes is to introduce inherent error into scientific investigation — the error is that if supernatural causes exist, then science would be blind to them and therefore would not be good science. If we are to understand natural effects, we must be open to all kinds of causes, including causes that transcend nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 3, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
Plants
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Another issue re the origin of plants between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago…

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October 3, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Plants
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Timothy Standish: I couldn’t help but notice that the time photosynthesis is supposed to have evolved doesn’t line up with either the time when oxygen is supposed to have become an important element in the atmosphere, half a billion years later, or the time that fixed carbon begins showing up in the fossil record, which is much earlier, possibly over half a billion years. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 3, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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At Mind Matters News: Could advanced aliens have fine-tuned Earth for life?

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October 3, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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As Robert Marks, Ola Hössjer, and Daniel Díaz discuss, some prominent atheists/agnostics have chosen to substitute advanced extraterrestrials for God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Leading astronomer gets it all wrong about free will and destiny

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October 2, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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In response to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb denying free will and all that, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out, “Logic and reason aren’t laws of physics and therefore they transcend physical properties.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2021
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Genetics
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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On the preprint server: Human micro proteins that sprang from nothing

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October 2, 2021
Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: " Given their short length it is plausible that some of these functional microproteins have recently originated entirely de novo from non-coding sequence. Here we test the possibility that de novo gene birth can produce microproteins that are functional 'out-of-the-box'. " So is everybody a creationist now but some people are in denial about it? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 1, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Intelligent Design
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Another job for “junk DNA”: Killing cancer in blind mole rats

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October 1, 2021
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design
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Researcher: “The paper describes an important new mechanistic insight into the way one can trigger inflammatory signals in cancer cells to either kill them directly or make them vulnerable to cancer-killing therapies,” says cancer biologist Stephen Baylin of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research. “The importance of it is really quite profound.” Read More ›