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Denyse O'Leary
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April 14, 2022
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Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
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Fun from the Babylon Bee in Twitter jail while Elon Musk tries to buy them and others out

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April 14, 2022
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Science: Just last month, Issues & Insights reported a poll it conducted with TIPP, the most accurate predictor of the last five presidential elections, regarding people’s feelings about COVID. The survey found 65% of Americans think COVID policy in the United States is “driven by politics,” with only 21% believing it’s “driven by science.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 14, 2022
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Plants
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Richard Buggs’s talk on the abominable mystery of flowers now available

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April 14, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Intro: Charles Darwin was convinced that the evolution of complexity must proceed by tiny steps. Only tiny steps could be accumulated by natural selection. The process had to go slowly for it to work. Billions of years were needed. But Darwin was aware that this theory had a problem: flowers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 14, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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So life on Earth is even older than we thought?

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April 14, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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At ScienceDaily: The researchers say that, while some of the structures could conceivably have been created through chance chemical reactions, the 'tree-like' stem with parallel branches was most likely biological in origin, as no structure created via chemistry alone has been found like it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 12, 2022
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Genetics
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Changing the genetic code — and still enabling life — would be a challenge

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April 12, 2022
Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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The basic message is that we can’t improve on all the things that just happen to work by accident in exactly the right way. Yet in just about any area of life other than evolution theory we find a completely different picture. Why is Darwinism allowed to be such a big exception to the general rule? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 12, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Neil Thomas comments on the difficulty of accommodating Darwinism to sudden origin of life

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April 12, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Here’s a thought: If your origin of life theory works, can we reverse engineer the conditions to produce life from non-life today? If we can’t, that doesn’t prove your theory false. After all, it is very difficult to demonstrate that something “couldn’t have” happened under any circumstances whatever. But you must now rejoin the queue in your previous place… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 12, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Could life have started in the depths of the Earth? It’s controversial.

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April 12, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Talk about an extremophile deep in the Earth! Trouble is we don’t know that life started out like audaxviator. It could just as easily be that one late-arriving microbe could inhabit that territory but nothing else could. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 12, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Asked at Space.com: Could gravity itself be the origin of dark matter?

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April 12, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Paul Sutter: A new model of the very early universe proposes that the graviton, the quantum mechanical force carrier of gravity, flooded the cosmos with dark matter before normal matter even had a chance to get started. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 12, 2022
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Christian Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Media
theistic evolution
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Ultra-In mag New Yorker: “For our nation and our species, the future depends” on Francis Collins’s success…

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April 12, 2022
Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, theistic evolution
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One way of looking at it: In light of the appalling treatment of infants under Collins’s regime, he is just the sort of individual that the New Yorker would want to represent evangelical Christians — or any other group that its staff despise. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 12, 2022
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horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Researchers shed light on how horizontal gene transfer triggers antibiotic resistance

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April 12, 2022
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At ScienceDaily: "Yi's experiments were designed to test this possible pathway that explains how different pathogens actually get resistance from environmental species," You said. "And he demonstrated that not only is this possible, it's also very likely." Read More ›