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Kirk Durston

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Kirk Durston on evolution and faith

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
Durston: What if you found out that one of the most frequent reasons that people have abandoned their faith was itself looking very sketchy indeed? I’m talking about evolution and its consistent failure to verify its most important prediction — without which it is dead in the water, as it were. The Darwinian theory that the full diversity of life evolved from a single primitive cell. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 27, 2020
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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If we need AlphaFold to figure out protein folding, how likely is protein folding to be a product of mere chance?

Denyse O'Leary
October 27, 2020
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
We are told by many philosophers that life came to exist on Earth purely by chance. How likely is that, given the intricacy of the machinery that governs our bodies, such that someone needs to design AlphaFold to figure it out? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 26, 2019
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science, Science fiction
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Kirk Durston: What do we do when Darwinism looks less like science all the time?

Denyse O'Leary
April 26, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science, Science fiction
Craig Venter: All living cells that we know of on this planet are “DNA software”-driven biological machines, comprised of hundreds of thousands of protein robots, coded for by the DNA. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 15, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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A biophysicist looks at the limits of what science can tell us

Denyse O'Leary
April 15, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
Kirk Durston: An essential prediction of the Darwinian theory of common descent, for example, is that functional genetic information increases through a process of mutations, insertions, and deletions. Experimental science, however, consistently falsifies this prediction. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 6, 2018
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Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Kirk Durston: Backing up the particle physicist who says there is “baked in” bias in science

Denyse O'Leary
September 6, 2018
Intelligent Design, Peer review

Story re Sabine Hosenfelder’s comments here. In response, Kirk Durston from P2C kindly writes to say, If anyone is interested in a list of references with links, backing up the serious problem that science is facing right now, I wrote a blog post a while back that has a “Further Reading” section at the bottom of it. It currently stands at 47 links, counting Sabine Hossenfelder’s latest blog post. Here is an example, From Should we have faith in science? Part II: peer-reviewed science papers Austin Hughes, in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focusing on the origin of adaptive phenotypes laments, ‘Thousands of papers are published every year claiming evidence of adaptive evolution on the basis of computational Read More ›