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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Major Neanderthal cave discovery at Gibraltar

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September 28, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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So far, no burial site has been found in the caves, and Finlayson speculated that digging down from the chamber at the apex of the cave could lead to side chambers and perhaps even a site where the Neanderthals placed their dead. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2021
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Atheism
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
theism
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At Mind Matters News: 4: Egnor now tries to find out what Dillahunty actually knows…

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September 28, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
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Michael Egnor: What I want to establish before that is that your arguments are not based on any actual knowledge. You don’t know the arguments for God’s existence. So your claim that they’re not true… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 27, 2021
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Cell biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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What happens when DNA snaps?

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September 27, 2021
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At Evolution News: "When both DNA strands break (the “double-stranded break” crisis, or DSB), a cell can die. Molecular machines fly into action as the strands flail about, threatening genomic catastrophe. The repair crew has an additional problem: unlike the bridge cable, the DNA strand is made up of a sequence of code that needs to match what was there before the DSB. In a process called homologous recombination, the machinery searches for a template to rebuild the broken sequence." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 27, 2021
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Big Bang
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks a curious question: Where did the Big Bang happen?

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September 27, 2021
Big Bang
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Hossenfelder: There are two warnings I have to add when it comes to the “Big Bang”. First, I don’t know anybody who actually believes that this singularity is physically real. It probably just means that Einstein’s equations break down and must be replaced by something else. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 27, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and Lovelace – We Need a Terminator Test

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September 27, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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The Turing test, and the Lovelace test, are attempts to determine if computers can show human-like intelligence. Holloway asks, what happens if researchers succeed in creating lifelike machines? in the sense of “wanting” things? "If we create an all-powerful artificial intelligence, we cannot assume it will be friendly. Thus, we need a Terminator test." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 26, 2021
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Atheism
theism
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William Lane Craig vs. Lewis Wolpert: Is God a delusion?

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September 26, 2021
Atheism, theism
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Lewis Wolpert (1929–2021) was “one of the giants of twentieth-century developmental biology. His name is most often associated with the “French flag model” and with his pronouncement that “It is not birth, marriage, or death but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life,” but he has made contributions to solving many key problems.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 25, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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Cosmologist George Ellis on the philosophical problems of cosmology — and a note from Rob Sheldon

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September 25, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Ellis: Humans have demonstrably contemplated purpose and meaning and ethics for millennia and their existence is data on how things are. The existence of these possibility spaces is part of the deep structure of the cosmos, in the way that I have proposed above. In that sense, meaning is built into the foundations of existence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 25, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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At The Scientist: “Science must combat dogmatism”

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September 25, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Easier said than done. Sadly, when we are told primly to “trust the science,” it is nearly always the case that the persons demanding the trust means by “the science” whatever science happens to support their position. One thing the COVID pandemic did was make a far greater proportion of the public aware of that meaning of “trust the science” than was the case in the past. For better or worse. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 25, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Science
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At Mind Matters News: Longtime skeptic now accepts parapsychology as science

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September 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Science
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It may be that a more correct account of many paranormal claims will turn out to be something like this: The mind, while dependent on the brain for its existence in our frame of reality, is not wholly tethered to it on a one-on-one basis. If the mind is not simply “what the brain does” epiphenhomenalism), we can make more sense of these facts and perhaps of many paranormal claims. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 25, 2021
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Cosmology
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: The UFOs Carl Sagan was convinced of but couldn’t talk about

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September 25, 2021
Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard for being, according to Zabel, a little too “out there.” But today, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb openly discusses his thoughts on ETs and UFOs in popular science venues. And, in what sounds like a helpful move, NASA is seeking standards for ET life claims, rather than just denying or avoiding them altogether. Read More ›