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Casey Luskin

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2022
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, specified complexity
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Here’s the webinar on topoisomerase, the complex ,specified “untangling” enzyme in our cells

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2022
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, specified complexity
Introduction: The carefully orchestrated untangling activity of topoisomerase II doesn’t happen by accident. This enzyme is a molecular machine that only works because its amino acid sequence is highly specified to provide a special shape and structure necessary for its function. In other words, topoisomerase enzymes contain high levels of complex and specified information—a hallmark of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 13, 2022
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Common ancestry: If the Khan Academy must front Darwinism, why use such unconvincing arguments?

Denyse O'Leary
February 13, 2022
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
Because of widespread convergent evolution, claims about common ancestry can’t be based on similarity of form alone — any more than we can assume that two people who look quite similar (body doubles) must be closely related. Life is more complex than that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 4, 2022
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Source of most animal intelligence still a mystery

Denyse O'Leary
February 4, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
Question: Magnetic poles can shift. We can suddenly have north become south and south become north. The continents can drift. So can these animal behaviors accommodate changes in earth’s magnetic field or its geography in order to allow animals to continue to migrate? No one really knows the answers to this stuff as yet. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2022
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscience mystery: How do tiny brains enable complex behavior?

Denyse O'Leary
January 28, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
Eric Cassell notes that insects with brains of only a million neurons exhibit principles found only in the most advanced man-made navigation systems. How? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Casey Luskin: The mytho-history of Adam, Eve, and William Lane Craig

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Long a defender of orthodoxy, Craig seems to want to prune the orthodoxies he is expected to defend. But the pruning process in which he is engaged can never really stop. The “sensible God” is most likely the one looking back at us from our medicine cabinet mirrors. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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William Lane Craig on Adam and Eve as less intelligent than us

Denyse O'Leary
November 13, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Whatever else Craig’s view is, as Luskin notes, it is a far cry from the Scriptural traditional assumption that the unfallen Adam and Eve were our betters and that we have all deteriorated as a result of sin. Adopting Craig’s view is bound to have worldview consequences. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Evangelical scientists getting it wrong…

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Casey Luskin: Craig continues to rely upon BioLogos arguments that pseudogenes are “broken” and non-functional junk DNA that we share with apes, thereby demonstrating our common ancestry. Those arguments are increasingly contradicted by evidence presented in highly authoritative scientific papers which find that pseudogenes are commonly functional, and they ought not be assumed to be genetic “junk.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin on the unique origins of humanity in the fossil record

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
DI Channel: Does the fossil record prove humans developed from ape-like ancestors? Or does it reveal that humans had a unique origin? In this lecture, geologist Casey Luskin offers some surprising evidence about the fossil history of humanity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 31, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin on Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Luskin: "Evolution moulded our minds and bodies to the life of hunter-gatherers” (p. 378) — then there’s no reason to expect that we should need to evolve the ability to build cathedrals, compose symphonies, ponder the deep physics mysteries of the universe, or write entertaining (or even imaginative) books about human history. Why should these things evolve? He said it, not me: “Frankly, we don’t know.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 13, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Science Uprising 8: Why materialism needs ape ancestors

Denyse O'Leary
October 13, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Klinghoffer: It "cuts to heart of the mystery of human origins. “Human Evolution: The Monkey Bias” features geologist Casey Luskin and biologist Jonathan Wells, showing that materialism is wed to ape origins for humans because the philosophy’s whole picture of reality demands it." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 7, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
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Casey Luskin reflects on the “official” demise of the term “junk DNA”

Denyse O'Leary
October 7, 2021
'Junk DNA'
Luskin: “these authors remember a day when ‘the common doctrine was that the nonprotein coding part of eukaryotic genome’ consisted of ‘“useless sequences, often organized in repetitive elements.’” Good. Keep the history alive. It won’t be very long before Darwinians start claiming that they never thought it was junk. Then they will start insinuating that WE said it was junk. No, that doesn’t make any sense but if the history is forgotten, it doesn’t need to either. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Media
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Casey Luskin will be on Coast to Coast tonight

Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media
From the show's description: He contends that Darwin-doubting scientists are hounded out of academia, schools refuse to acknowledge peer-reviewed science that contradicts the standard evolutionary paradigm, and Big Tech obscures accurate information about intelligent design. Read More ›