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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 26, 2020
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Convergent evolution
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Darwin skeptic focuses on the repeated evolution of the camera eye

News
August 26, 2020
Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Shedinger: But how could a similar series of mutations of the sort necessary to produce similarly structured eyes in different lineages occur so many times independently if the mutations are randomly produced? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 25, 2020
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Cell biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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New paper: Multicellularity did not follow a simple straight path

News
August 25, 2020
Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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From the paper: "For example, do all lineages and clades share an ancestral developmental predisposition for multicellularity emerging from genomic and biophysical motifs shared from a last common ancestor, or are the multiple origins of multicellularity truly independent evolutionary events?" Stuart Newman is one of those The Third Way scientists seeking an alternative to sterile Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2020
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Intelligent Design
speciation
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Hybrid pet cat bred from species as different as humans and chimpanzees

News
August 24, 2020
Intelligent Design, speciation
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Or so they say. Working on a story about unusual facts about cats, I (O’Leary for News) came across an interesting piece of information from a NOVA documentary: CARLOS DRISCOLL: All domestic cats, up until the last 20 years, have been purely Felis silvesteris. Humans have, very interestingly, now hybridized the domestic cat with a completely different species. NARRATOR: Anthony Hutcherson has been breeding one such hybrid, the Bengal cat. ANTHONY HUTCHERSON (Winn Feline Foundation): Bengals come from a cross between domestic cats and a wildcat species called the Asian leopard cat. Personality-wise, they are a little different from other cats, and they’re pretty active and interested and intelligent. So, if you just want a cat to sit on your Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Despite everything, some still carry on about “denialism”

News
August 24, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Hard on the heels of the news that a Harvard astronomer still thinks that long-vanished space rock Oumuamua is “alien tech,” we see—direct from Boilerplate Central—a screed by a Harvard science historian at Scientific American about “denialism.” She has a theory: Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 23, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Philosophy
Physics
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Ed Feser on theoretical physicist’s new book: “the particle collection that fancied itself a physicist”

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August 23, 2020
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Physics
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Feser: Alfred Korzybski once said, “the map is not the territory.” If only more physicists were capable of seeing what a crackpot linguist could! Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 22, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Viruses called phages, researchers say, are in a grey zone between life and non-life

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August 22, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Researcher: "Typically, what separates life from non-life is to have ribosomes and the ability to do translation; that is one of the major defining features that separate viruses and bacteria, non-life and life," Sachdeva said. "Some large phages have a lot of this translational machinery, so they are blurring the line a bit." Read More ›