Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 21, 2020
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Fine tuning
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Unexpected complexity found in human heart – a use for the myocardial trabeculae

News
August 21, 2020
Fine tuning, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Cold Spring Harbor: "The researchers discovered that the shape of trabeculae affects the performance of the heart, suggesting a potential link to heart disease. " Is this true only of human hearts? What about ancient ones? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 21, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
Philosophy
Science
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Psychologist sounds alarm: We are turning science into science fiction!

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August 21, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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But now, here’s a problem: In the world of the war on math, what, exactly, is wrong with science fiction replacing science? If 2 + 2 does not necessarily = 4, how can we be expected to even know that bogosity is wrong? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 21, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Rob Sheldon on the latest claim that quantum mechanics imperils objectivity

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August 21, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sheldon: Actually the debate over "the meaning of QM" has been going on since 1935 when Einstein published his EPR paper. It is just that the wiggle-room is getting reduced as our straight-jacket is being cinched tighter. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Ethan Siegel enumerates what we might find, re life on Mars

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August 20, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Siegel: It’s the ultimate nightmare of astrobiologists: that there’s a fascinating history of life to uncover on another world, but we’ll contaminate it with our own organisms before we ever learn the true history of life on that world. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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A Universal Mind is a reasonable idea, says Bernardo Kastrup

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August 20, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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One reason that science media are respectful of cosmopsychism may be growing awareness of the problems with strict materialism, naturalism, or physicalism: As Michael Egnor has noted, “How can you have a proposition that the mind doesn’t exist? That means propositions don’t exist and that means that you don’t have a proposition.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2020
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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If you think dogs are smarter than cats, this will surprise you

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August 20, 2020
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Interspecies comparisons are difficult but if we are going to compare, a better matchup would be between cats and wolves because both species have generally had to solve their own problems, as opposed to dogs which are bred to wait for human guidance. Read More ›
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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
August 19, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design

Does Science Need Naturalism?

johnnyb
August 19, 2020
Intelligent Design
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I did a podcast on whether or not naturalism has historically been of benefit to science. The *actual* interaction of naturalism with science is both drastically different and more interesting than what is presented in most science classes and books. Podcast information available here.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 19, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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CS Lewis, COVID-19, and scientism

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August 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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"Seventy-five years ago, C.S. Lewis published his novel ”That Hideous Strength,” which explored the dangers of government in the name of science. What relevance does Lewis's advice on the promise and perils of science-based public policy have in the age of COVID-19 and beyond? " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 19, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Naturalism
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Arithmetic as racism: A teacher’s reflections on the progressive war on math

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August 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
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Mahlberg: English philosopher G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) saw the early signs of the West’s abandonment of objective truth, and in a cheeky tone, he warned: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 19, 2020
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Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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Claim: Solar system might once have had two companion stars

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August 19, 2020
Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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But wait! Who’s claiming this? The second author of this paper is Abraham (Avi) Loeb. That rings a bell. Wasn’t he the one who suggested that the obvious space junk Oumuamua was an extraterrestrial light sail? Look, why does the name “Harvard” put all doubts about credibility to rest? Especially in these times? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 19, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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What? Cosmologist Sean Carroll doesn’t freak out when Darwin is doubted?

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August 19, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Interesting podcast in which astrophysicist Bartlett is permitted to question dogmas. The dogma about the One Single Common Ancestor that kicked off Darwinian evolution is the product of a prior belief in life’s sheer Flukiness. If you do not believe that life is a fluke, whatever else you believe, you can discard that One Single Cell doctrine as nonessential and problematic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 18, 2020
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Information
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Steve Meyer on James Tour’s podcast

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August 18, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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"In this interview, Dr. James Tour and Dr. Stephen Meyer discuss science and faith, while getting into the details on the discovery of complex, sequence specific information required for life's function and origin, and the required fine-tuned laboratory that we call our universe that must exist in order for assembly to occur." People are taking reality seriously? What next, we wonder? Read More ›