Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 18, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne: Darwinians do SO bash eugenics!

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March 18, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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We accept that Coyne and his friends didn’t find Nicholas Wade’s views congenial. But wasn’t he one of the pop science gang? Could some Darwinians possibly shed some light on his retirement book party and then sudden submergence? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 17, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Darwin skeptic Robert Shedinger calls out Paul Davies

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March 17, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Shedinger, author of The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms: Darwinian Biology’s Grand Narrative of Triumph and the Subversion of Religion (Cascade, 2019), offers some thoughts on origin-of-life theorist Paul Davies’ decades-long dance around design in nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 16, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Serious panpsychists are harder to ridicule now

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March 16, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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For a long while, Darwinians have been able to get away with claiming that human consciousness evolved to increase our chances of survival. The trouble is, that’s unlikely. The relationship between intelligence and survival is unclear. Or that it is some kind of a “spandrel,” an accidental byproduct of useful qualities. But that’s merely a statement of faith in Darwinism as the total explainer. It’s evening and the chickens are coming home. Read More ›
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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
March 15, 2020
Categories
Education

Unexpectedly Homeschooling because of COVID-19

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March 15, 2020
Education
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Many people have been unexpected thrust into home education due to the effects of COVID-19. At Homeschool Oklahoma, we are trying to put together resources to help out families who have to figure out how to educate their children at home with no prior planning. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 15, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy

Edward Feser on mathematics and the sense of the divine

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March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy
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Feser: Mathematical truths exhibit infinity, necessity, eternity, immutability, perfection, and immateriality because they are God’s thoughts, and they have such explanatory power in scientific theorizing because they are part of the blueprint implemented by God in creating the world. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 15, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Religion
Science
theism
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The beginnings of Western science vs the Galileo myth

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March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
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Lindberg: "It is little wonder, given this kind of scholarly backing, that the ignorance and degradation of the Middle Ages has become an article of faith among the general public, achieving the status of invulnerability merely by virtue of endless repetition." And Bimbette Fluffarelli, talk show hostess, learned it sixteenth-hand at school… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 15, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Religion
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How Christianity aided modern science

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March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
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The troubling part is that many sources won’t talk about this stuff because it is “religious” but they don’t mind parroting some flapdoodle from a village atheist, of whom it might be said that to call him merely ill-informed would be to shower him with unearned praise. Read More ›