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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 7, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: The space aliens are indeed Out There! But they’re “lyfe,” not life

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September 7, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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From The Guardian: The two researchers say there are “sublyfe” systems that only meet some of these criteria, and also perhaps “superlyfe” that meets additional ones: lyfe forms that have capabilities beyond ours and that might look on us as we do on complex but non-living processes such as crystal growth. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 7, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
language
Mind
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Where Wallace can shed light and Darwin can’t

News
September 7, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
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From ENST: ... how did humans by means of natural selection alone develop language and sophisticated verbal communication? The answer: we didn’t. It was a product inherent in us, what Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s partner and challenger, said it was all along, an intrinsic part of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 6, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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Britain’s Natural History Museum is feeling the heat over Darwin’s racism

News
September 6, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Some of us remember fifteen years ago when anyone who brought up Darwin’s racism was informed, superciliously, by Darwinists that only a creationist would raise such an issue, as if there were nothing to be appalled by. One is tempted to say, suck it up. But that’s not a solution. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 5, 2020
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Books of interest
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Michael Flannery’s book on Alfred Russel Wallace has been revised and updated

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September 5, 2020
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Wallace, as Darwin’s co-theorist, disappeared because he was not useful to the cause of naturalism. We’ll try to help make sure he doesn’t disappear again. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 4, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Physicists: Life forms could flourish in the interior of stars

News
September 4, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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This would seem to be string theory’s contribution to biology: At a time when we haven’t yet located fossil bacteria on Mars (of which there is at least a plausible hope), we are asked to accept that there might be formations within stars that we would not identify as life but really are. String theory is then about as fruitful in biology as it is in cosmology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 4, 2020
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Biomimicry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Insects were mimicking lichens 165 million years ago

News
September 4, 2020
Biomimicry, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Whoever wrote the media release was very, very light on the Darwinblather. Mind you, claiming that it all happened via endless iterations of natural selection acting on random mutations wears a bit thin when the time Darwinians thought they had has been sharply reduced. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 3, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
speciation
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Researchers: How two bacteria of different species become one

News
September 3, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Researcher: “They mix their machinery to survive or do metabolism, and that’s kind of extraordinary, because we always assumed that each and every organism has its own independent identity and machinery,” said Papoutsakis. Read More ›