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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 1, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Darwinism is dead and the butterflies did it

News
November 1, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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No, but seriously, if "'species' are simply not what we thought they were,” as the researchers' media release reads, all those carefully thought-out explanations of the neo-Darwinian origin of various butterfly traits must compete with “a complete morass of inter-connectedness.” Darwinism is dying and people are wisely refraining from spelling that out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 1, 2019
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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More Neanderthal eagle jewelry found in the Iberian Peninsula

News
November 1, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Most likely the underlying issue for the dissenters is that the anthropologists are Darwinians and in any Darwinian scheme, someone must be the subhuman. Otherwise, there is no beginning to human history. The Neanderthals are convenient for the purpose. If we found a Stone Age laptop among the Neanderthal artifacts, the same people might still be claiming it didn’t prove anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 1, 2019
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Darwinism
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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The “rise of the greedy-brained ape”?

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November 1, 2019
Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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It’s helpful to be reminded that the science cognoscenti see the rest of us that way. They may see themselves that way, though vanity more likely gets in the way at the last, critical moment. No wonder so many people these days are “anti-science.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 31, 2019
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Physics
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Astrophysicist Adam Frank: Materialism is on shaky ground

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October 31, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Physics
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Frank is an expert on the final stages of evolution of stars like the sun. His computational research group has developed advanced supercomputer tools in order to study how stars form and die. So he would incline to a materialist view, surely? But no, he says, quantum physics blew all that away. And some neuroscientists just haven’t caught up. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 31, 2019
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder: There is a crisis in physics and it may spread to other sciences

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October 31, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Many science writers probably like the current state of affairs because nonsense about the multiverse and space aliens is easy to write. Artists might like it because it is easy to illustrate. Only if you cared about physics would you want to spoil the party. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2019
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Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon dumps cold water on the “planetary autopsy” that says ET life is common

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October 29, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: I would argue that this is a very weak argument, mostly trying to jazz up a very boring data set or at least distract the audience from remembering the "standard candle" Nobel Prize assumed that all white dwarfs were identical. Either way, its a preposterous story attempting to distract from its most distressing results. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Historian Michael Flannery: There is much more Darwin doubt now than fifty years ago

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October 29, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Flannery: "Most interesting of all is the last essay by a noted historian and philosopher of biology, the late Jean Gayon, “What Future for Darwinism?” Against the centennial celebration, the question itself stands out as one that certainly wasn’t to be seriously asked in Chicago [in 1959]." Read More ›