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Mike Keas

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 12, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
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Mike Keas on the myth that a big universe is a problem for religion

Denyse O'Leary
October 12, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion
Quoting C. S. Lewis: “If we discover other bodies, they must be habitable or uninhabitable: and the odd thing is that both these hypotheses are used as grounds for rejecting Christianity.” 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 3, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion, Science
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Philosopher of science Mike Keas: Artificial intelligence (AI) as an emergent religion

Denyse O'Leary
February 3, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion, Science

Many Singulatarians hold that their soon-to-be-realized technology will be indistinguishable by the rest of us from magic.   Are they serious? Well, in 2005, Kurzweil said that the magical Harry Potter stories “are not unreasonable visions of our world as it will exist only a few decades from now.” when, due to AI, “the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence.”  Keas warns that this type of thing encourages people “to expect the experiential equivalent of occult phenomena.” More. Mike Keas’s new book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion discusses how AI and ET are merging, to create a religion of futurist magic: See also: Historian: Darwinists Kept The “Flat Earth” Myth Going, To Attack 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 ›