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Denyse O'Leary
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November 22, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Christianity vs. Darwinism: The war that never took place?

Denyse O'Leary
November 22, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Seth Hart has the story about the many Christian thinkers who embraced Darwinism early on. One guesses that by the time most Christian thinkers discovered what Darwinism really was (Social Darwinism undoubtedly helped them see… ), many were heavily compromised and it was too late to back out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Humor, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Science, theism
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The Bee stings again: 7 ways Christianity ruined science

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Humor, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Science, theism
Babylon Bee: The scientific method was created by a devout Christian, which burdens scientists with restrictive fundamentalist rules: The scientific method limits our science. We're tired of fundamentalist Christians always imposing strict rules. Live a little, for goodness sake! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 8, 2020
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Culture, Science, theism
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Zoom meeting: Ted Davis on why Christianity is good for science

Denyse O'Leary
November 8, 2020
Culture, Science, theism
BioLogos: Drawing on information and insights from the history and philosophy of science, Dr. Davis will argue that Christian faith actually complements the picture of the world coming from the sciences, helping us to achieve a deeper understanding of both the way the world is and how we should go about understanding it... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Richard Dawkins is getting canceled again

Denyse O'Leary
September 28, 2020
Academic Freedom, Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion
Apparently, when Richard Dawkins said he was an atheist, some people didn’t realize that he rejected Islam along with Christianity. The stark reality is that the post-Christian student does not want to win a debate but rather to cancel it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 15, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
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How Christianity aided modern science

Denyse O'Leary
March 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, theism
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 ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 16, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
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At upcoming CSS conference: “Does anyone come to Christian faith by a rational process?”

Denyse O'Leary
February 16, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theism
For example, Günter Bechly: “Altogether, I suggest that the cumulative evidence against materialism and for theism is simply overwhelming. I became a Christian theist not in spite of being a scientist but because of it.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 29, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
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Historian: Christianity has been the world’s greatest engine for moral reform

Denyse O'Leary
December 29, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
Thomas Kidd: To cite just one, sociologist Robert Woodberry showed in a landmark 2012 article that Christian missionaries were responsible for much of the global spread of cultural values such as “religious liberty, mass education, mass printing, newspapers, voluntary organizations, and colonial reforms” from Latin America to East Asia. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2019
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theism, theistic evolution
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Douglas Murray: Is Darwinism toxic to Christianity?

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theism, theistic evolution
And if Darwinism isn’t a correct statement of origins anyway, where does that leave all these theistic evolution fudgers in the cold light of the morning? They won't come off looking any better than the creationists or the Darwinists, however they tried to position themselves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 20, 2019
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Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Bill Nye’s “Christianity vs. the Big Universe” myth

Denyse O'Leary
January 20, 2019
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Religion
“The big universe is a problem for Christianity” is a claim something like “They’re out there” (meaning ET). It has nothing to do with facts; it is pure social positioning (or posturing). As with the Cosmos’s series’s “artistic license to lie,” it is a way of indicating that their social position is so powerful that they can misrepresent people. Read More ›
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Joshua Gidney
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September 4, 2012
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Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science, specified complexity
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Debating Darwin and Design: A Dialogue Between Two Christians

Joshua Gidney
September 4, 2012
Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science, specified complexity

A couple of months ago, I agreed to take part in a written debate with a good friend of mine, Francis Smallwood. Francis, like me, is a commited Christian. Unlike me though, he is also a neo-Darwinist. On his blog Musings Of A Scientific Nature he writes on many different scientific issues, although his primary focus is on Darwinism. I encourage UD readers to check his blog out. As an enthusiastic ID proponent, I obviously think his embrace of Darwinian theory is profoundly mistaken, and equally I think his criticisms of ID are weak. However, he is at least willing to engage in debate with people of opposing view points and is not as dismissive as most Darwinists. Our idea Read More ›