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COVID-19

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 25, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Media, Medicine, Science
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An eye-opening science-related COVID roundup

Denyse O'Leary
April 25, 2020
Intelligent Design, Media, Medicine, Science
Reliance on expertise can, depending on the circumstances, be a form of superstition. And, in short, the numbers solemnly announced by the suits on TV are often just a crock. And none of this is doing the reputation of science any good. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 18, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Classic “evolution” rubbish about COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
April 18, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
So the worry is that we are more social than chimps and therefore can’t handle social distancing? Seriously, the big difference between being a human and being a chimp is that humans can actually decide to do something based on reason. It comes of having an intellect, something Darwinian evolution has never been able to assimilate. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 31, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Why COVID-19 rates are difficult to compute

Denyse O'Leary
March 31, 2020
Intelligent Design, Medicine
Among other things: “Things appear deceptively dire if we calculate death rate solely by reference to reported COVID-19 cases; but the picture is deceptively benign if we measure deaths against an inflated conjecture about the non-reporting population. ” - McCarthy Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 25, 2020
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Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Bartlett: Was the COVID-19 Virus Designed? The Computer Doesn’t Know

Denyse O'Leary
March 25, 2020
Design inference, Intelligent Design
Some researchers confuse not finding a particular type of design with ruling out design of the virus. This problem is not unique to them; it is a bad habit of the scientific community which stretches back into the 1800s. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 12, 2020
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Michael Behe muses on design and COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
March 12, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Behe: … most viruses do not affect humans and may well have a positive, necessary role to play in nature of which we are currently unaware. (I would bet on it.) From time to time a storm arises in the virosphere and affects humans. But that’s no reason to think either that viruses weren’t designed or that the designer of viruses isn’t good. Read More ›