Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 2, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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Cancel Culture lets an ID-friendly paper slip through the cracks

News
October 2, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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At ENST: "Sure enough, after Darwinists discovered the article, they succeeded in obtaining a “disclaimer” from the journal’s editors, who proclaimed their bias against ID. But the disclaimer actually made publication of the article all the more significant." Read More ›
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October 2, 2020
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News Highlights

BREAKING: President Trump, Mrs Trump & Ms Hicks are Positive for CV-19

kairosfocus
October 2, 2020
News Highlights
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Tweets: When you thought an extraordinarily chaotic year could not pull out another twist. Well, here it is. END PS: As broad context PPS: For reference on HCQ Also: PPPS: A sampler from a former CEO, Twitter (cf discussion at Forbes [also here]) commented on by Michelle Malkin, a few days ago: See, now, that this is NOT a normal silly season cycle? PPPPS: A summary on the U/L trajectory of CV19:

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 1, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Pew survey shows that in the US conservatives trust scientists less than liberals; Rob Sheldon comments

News
October 1, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Sheldon: If you politicize science, people stop trusting you. It has nothing to do with “science” and everything to do with “scientists.” And the fact that the media spin this as a distrust of “Science” tells you that the distrust is well-placed. Why is this so hard to explain? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 1, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Michael Denton’s new book calls our cells a “third infinity” of information

News
October 1, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Michael Denton: "In the seventeenth century Christina, Queen of Sweden, upon hearing René Descartes insist that organisms are analogous to machines, is said to have retorted by saying of a mechanical clock, “See to it that it produces offspring.” Christina’s challenge has yet to be met." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 30, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Laws
Philosophy
Science
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At RealClearScience: Replace juries with scientists!

News
September 30, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Laws, Philosophy, Science
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So. In a science world where Scientific American broke with a 175-year tradition to endorse a candidate for U.S. President, we are still supposed to believe in some objective gold standard of science? Precisely what those people GAVE UP is any claim to be considered objective. Sorry. Scientists can’t just deke in and out of objectivity whenever it suits them. And they’ll sure miss it when it’s gone. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 30, 2020
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Animal minds
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Primate intelligence test just makes humans more exceptional

News
September 30, 2020
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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A recent finding was that mouse lemurs, with a brain 1/200th the size of that of a chimpanzee, performed approximately as well on a primate cognition test. And then there's human intelligence... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Are science journals starting to behave like Facebook?

News
September 30, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Chuck Dinerstein, MD, argues the case. " You would think that if a fraction of that money, say 1%, which is about $30 million, could be redirected at paying for peer-review, we might get a better quality product." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 29, 2020
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Epigenetics
Intelligent Design
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(Reformed) New Scientist 4: There is more to inheritance than just genes

News
September 29, 2020
Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: “Subsequent studies in plants and animals suggest that epigenetic inheritance is more common than anyone had expected. Whatʼs more, compared with genetic inheritance, it has some big advantages. Environments can change rapidly and dramatically, but genetic mutations are random, so often require generations to take hold.” Just think, within a few years, genetics might start to make some sense. You’ve got to hand it to the New Scientist gang; when they rethink, they really do. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 29, 2020
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
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Debunking another claim that an alleged “pillar” of human exceptionalism has “fallen”

News
September 29, 2020
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Stripped of the rhetoric about supposedly fallen “pillars of human exceptionalism,” the researchers found a neuronal response in carrion crows that “might be a broad marker” for consciousness. Well, sure, it might. But before we get carried away, the consciousness we should know the most about is human consciousness, which remains almost a complete mystery to us, despite much research. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 29, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Natural selection
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How much computing power would we need to evolve computer via Darwinian evolution that can program itself ?

News
September 29, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Natural selection
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But read the fine print: We would need to run many trials of planets in parallel in order to simulate the real conditions in the universe. Yampolskiy concludes, ‘In fact, depending on some assumptions we make regarding multiverse, quantum aspects of biology, and probabilistic nature of Darwinian algorithm such compute may never be available.’” Read More ›