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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 9, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Researchers: Big data shows math laws that underlie life’s unity

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October 9, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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From the release: “The work, led by Ian Hatton at ICTA-UAB in Barcelona, shows how metabolism, abundance, growth and mortality all follow strikingly consistent relationships with body size from the tiniest bacteria to the blue whale.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 8, 2019
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Darwinism
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
science education
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Horizontal gene transfer: Cholera bacterium steals 150 genes at once

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October 8, 2019
Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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Relevant in more ways than one. Remember that recent Atlantic article where the writer was grousing that her school didn’t teach “evolution” (Darwinism)? And a Darwin lobbyist told her that as a result we wouldn't understand superbugs? Darwinism is probably in the way, actually. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 8, 2019
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Big Bang
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder on the future of particle physics

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October 8, 2019
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Hossenfelder: The standard model works just fine with that number and it fits the data. But a small number like this, without explanation, is ugly and particle physicists didn’t want to believe nature could be that ugly. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 8, 2019
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Stick insects’ “remarkable camouflage” postdates mammals and birds

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October 8, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Of course, they don't come right out and say this but if the stick insects’ amazing camouflages developed after they started to be eaten by predatory mammals and birds, there was not as much time as was thought for the Darwinian claims. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Multiverse
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Multiverse is science based on zero evidence, science writer complains

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October 7, 2019
Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Baggott, of course, also feels the need to take the ritual swipe at ID. He must do so because he is allowed to criticize crackpot cosmology provided that he holds to no thesis about the nature of nature that would impede its actual advance. He can regret it but he must not undermine it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2019
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Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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SETI aims to become more “respectable”

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October 7, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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And get government grants. The thing is, we do not actually have any evidence-based reason to believe that ET is out there. Why should government fund a search for ET as an alternative to, say, health care and affordable housing, for which we needn’t search very hard to see the need? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2019
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design

Once upon a time, Venus (might have) had life, say researchers

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October 7, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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The finding "flies in the face of conventional notions of habitability, which state that Venus’ orbit places it beyond the inner edge of our Sun’s habitable zone (HZ). Within this “Venus Zone”, according to conventional wisdom, a planet absorbs too much solar radiation to ever be able to maintain liquid water on its surface. But as Way indicated, their simulations all indicated otherwise." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 6, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
theism
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In debating Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor tries philosophy…

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October 6, 2019
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
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Egnor: The Prime Mover argument is the most popular formal argument for the existence of God, and it is often misunderstood and, when understood, often misrepresented. Atheists, in my experience, never get it right. If they did, they wouldn’t be atheists. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 6, 2019
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Creationism
Culture
Intelligent Design
Religion
Science
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Two contradictory figures for the age of the Earth can be true at the same time?

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October 6, 2019
Creationism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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Many of us simply avoid getting involved except to try to blunt the persecution of unpopular views. For one thing, it isn’t self-evident that geologists are always right either. I regret the fact that scientists were once ridiculed for believing that the Earth has tectonic plates. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 6, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Philosophy
Physics
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Rob Sheldon: Why process philosophy won’t rescue naturalism

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October 6, 2019
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Physics
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"Let me repeat. Physics doesn't change. And even when discussing the changes (like an oscillation), the physics of change doesn't change. Somebody is making a serious category error when the physics of change becomes the change of physics." Read More ›