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Denyse O'Leary
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October 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design

Mathematician John Lennox warns about the darkening intellectual scene

Denyse O'Leary
October 30, 2020
Intelligent Design
Lennox: "One of the things that I never tire of saying is: Look to the origin of the great universities. They were mostly founded on Christian thinking. That is extremely important. Now what we’ve got is the dominance of naturalism, with universities going against their very foundation." Yes, when freedom of speech - for example - threatens them, they sure have a problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2020
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Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Precambrian creature scrunches the origin of life even further

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
This “revolutionary animal” is not that much like the Cambrian creatures so far found but the big question is, how did life explode so quickly if it was only by chance? Why not just give up on that idea and study the creature for what it is? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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Why, as a neurosurgeon, Michael Egnor believes in free will

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Egnor: "An intellectual seizure would be a seizure that caused abstract thought, such as logic, or reasoning, or mathematics. People never have, for example, mathematics seizures—seizures in which they involuntarily do calculus or arithmetic. This observation, which is as true today as it was in Penfield’s time nearly a century ago, begs for explanation." He offers an argument for the immaterial powers of the mind. Read More ›
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William Murray
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October 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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“Superhuman:” Mind Blowing Documentary

William Murray
October 29, 2020
Intelligent Design

If you want to have your mind blown, I suggest watching the documentary available on Amazon or iTunes titled “Superhuman.” It demonstrates amazing psi capacity, including teaching the blind to see and read with their minds, telekinesis, etc. The documentary shows just the tip of the iceberg of what is scientifically achievable once it is no longer limited by materialist perspectives.

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 28, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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What? An honest admission about the bacterial flagellum from Darwin-driven biology?

Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
Researchers: "To build the machinery that enables bacteria to swim, over 50 proteins have to be assembled according to a logic and well-defined order to form the flagellum, the cellular equivalent of an offshore engine of a boat." They ADMIT this? It sounds like a Recovery Meeting. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 28, 2020
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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John Sanford and James Tour discuss science and faith

Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2020
Genetics, Intelligent Design
Dr. James Tour and Dr. John Sanford discuss science and faith, including Dr. Sanford's challenge against the idea of natural selection benefiting the fitness of living organisms, coming as a direct result of his research on genomes showing the fitness of biological systems are degenerating due to the accumulation of harmful mutations. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 27, 2020
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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If we need AlphaFold to figure out protein folding, how likely is protein folding to be a product of mere chance?

Denyse O'Leary
October 27, 2020
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
We are told by many philosophers that life came to exist on Earth purely by chance. How likely is that, given the intricacy of the machinery that governs our bodies, such that someone needs to design AlphaFold to figure it out? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 26, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Pushback at StatNews against politicizing science. Rob Sheldon weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Sheldon: The editors of Science and Nature compromised their scientific objectivity years ago. They promoted papers that big pharma wanted, they suppressed papers that made big pharma look bad. They were complicit in the coverup of not just tobacco and sugar lobbies, but vaccines and Darwinism and global warming... So of course this produced cognitive dissonance, since it violated some of the very basic tenets of objective science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 26, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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Michael Egnor addresses an objection to free will raised here at Uncommon Descent

Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Egnor: [fMRI isn't decisive.] But fMRI is worthless in the neuroscience of free will. To understand why, note that fMRI has very poor temporal resolution. fMRI measures changes in blood flow in the brain in response to activity of neurons, and these changes lag neuronal activity by at least several seconds. Read More ›