Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 24, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Design inference
Intelligent Design
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The CORRECT way to understand the mysterious Utah monolith

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November 24, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Why rush to conclude intelligent design?, asks philosopher and photographer Laszlo Bencze. He writes us to recommend a proper Darwinian view of the problem, a sort of desert version of Darwin’s “warm little pond” origin of life. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 23, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design
Peer review
Philosophy
Science
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Gizmodo asks experts to name the biggest science frauds of the past 50 years

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November 23, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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Dr. Hesselmann's probably right but how depressing. In a world where so much research that doesn’t involve fraud fails replication, it’s just a fact that most published research papers in many fields are probably wrong or at least sloppy. So why bother with fraud? But not exactly a good look for science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 22, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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Film clip on the probability of a protein forming by chance passes 500k views

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November 22, 2020
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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xcerpt: Putting the probabilities together means adding the exponents. The probability of getting a properly folded chain of one-handed amino acids, joined by peptide bonds, is one chance in 10^74+45+45, or one in 10^164 (Meyer, p. 212). This means that, on average, you would need to construct 10^164 chains of amino acids 150 units long to expect to find one that is useful. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 22, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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Futurist George Gilder: Humans don’t treat physical and chemical forces or clock pulses the way computers do

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November 22, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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As one of the fundamental dimensions of the universe, time doubtless has a regular flow. But people stuck behind a flock of Canada geese crossing a road don’t experience time in the same way as people rushing to complete a report in time for the Big Board Meeting in two hours. Read More ›