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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2020
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Evidence of loss of faith in science due to political partisanship

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Time will tell but the effect may prove cumulative. People lose trust for different reasons and the numbers add up, not down … When the next “Trust the Science!” panic sweeps the internet, a third group will join them, asking, “So what’s in this latest crazy for the Voice of Science?” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Is Jerry Coyne undercutting his own argument against free will?

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Michael Egnor: “Except for action of any quantum events”? I challenge Coyne: What in nature isn’t the action of quantum events? Certainly, every event in the brain is quantum in nature—every brain state, every action potential, every secretion of a neurotransmitter, every bit of protein synthesis or ion flow—is the consequence of quantum events. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2020
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, theism
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National rollout of John Lennox’s Against the Tide movie expanded to 3 nights

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2020
Atheism, Intelligent Design, theism
Blurb: Against the Tide is a travelogue, an examination of modern science, an excursion into history, an autobiography, and more. But at heart, it is the story of one man’s daring stand against the tide of contemporary atheism and its drive to relegate belief in God to society’s catalogue of dead ideas. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2020
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A debate at Scientific American: Can a pill change your mind about basic issues in life?

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Readers who remain skeptical that hallucinogens can change our values may wonder how religious and political values— so often rooted in decades of history, family history, and personal experience—could really be overturned by a mere trip. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 14, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
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Jonathan McLatchie: What about Carl Sagan’s claim about “extraordinary evidence?”

Denyse O'Leary
November 14, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
McLatchie: The problem with the word “extraordinary” here is that it is rarely clearly defined. The mantra that I would adopt instead is that all claims require sufficient evidence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 14, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Cells ordered to commit suicide don’t necessarily die

Denyse O'Leary
November 14, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Isn’t that remarkable? The phenomenon that enables cells to avoid committing suicide when “ordered” to do so (apoptosis) is so old that it goes back to the common ancestor of flies and mice. How much time was there for such a complex system to evolve purely randomly, as in a Darwinian scheme? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 14, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Transcension hypothesis: The aliens live at the nanoscale and are too small for us to see

Denyse O'Leary
November 14, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Recall that shrinking or growing can both be seen as forms of travel. While the Transcension hypothesis has the extraterrestrials traveling away from us by shrinking, it is also possible to travel away by growing rapidly. Some religious writers, like C.S. Lewis, picture Hell as a very tiny place. Those who escape it simply grow far beyond its scale. Read More ›