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Sean Carroll

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 3, 2022
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
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Simon Conway Morris on his new book on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism

Denyse O'Leary
September 3, 2022
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
Sean Carroll: Simon Conway Morris is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who’s new book is From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution. He is known as a defender of evolutionary convergence and adaptationism — even when there is a mass extinction, he argues, the resulting shake-up simply accelerates the developments evolution would have made anyway. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 9, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: The Philosopher’s Zombie Still Walks and Physics Can’t Explain It

Denyse O'Leary
February 9, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
The “zombie” argument does what it is supposed to do: Shows that consciousness, the motivating force in our lives, is not really a material thing. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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What? Cosmologist Sean Carroll doesn’t freak out when Darwin is doubted?

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Interesting podcast in which astrophysicist Bartlett is permitted to question dogmas. The dogma about the One Single Common Ancestor that kicked off Darwinian evolution is the product of a prior belief in life’s sheer Flukiness. If you do not believe that life is a fluke, whatever else you believe, you can discard that One Single Cell doctrine as nonessential and problematic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 26, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Naturalism
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Trinity Radio on cosmologist Sean Carroll and ignoring reality

Denyse O'Leary
January 26, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Naturalism
But doesn’t a multiverse cosmologist like Sean Carroll get to pick and choose the reality he prefers from an infinite variety? Who says there is only one reality, the one he doesn't like? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 26, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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John Horgan on how multiverse theories are bad for science

Denyse O'Leary
November 26, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
The Scientific American columnist is unimpressed by two recent books on the subject, cosmologist Sean Carroll’s Something Deeply Hidden and science writer Tom Siegfried’s The Number of the Heavens. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 11, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Sean Carroll: A multiverse is the price we pay for unifying physics

Denyse O'Leary
September 11, 2019
Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Carroll: “The price we pay for such a powerful and simple unification of quantum dynamics is a large number of separate worlds.” Right. And the price you pay for suicide is that nothing you do in this world afterward matters. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 10, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
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Sean Carroll: Physicists don’t even want to understand quantum mechanics

Denyse O'Leary
September 10, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
Carroll wants a multiverse out of any new findings, one suspects. One question many might have is, apart from the lack of a multiverse, how bad is the current situation in physics? What, besides that, is going wrong? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 4, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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At Nature: The “bizarre logic” of the multiverse is explored in a review

Denyse O'Leary
September 4, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Crease writes as if he would very much like to buy into Carroll's ideas but still thinks that sanity has something to offer. Possibly, many establishment science figures teeter on that brink. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 16, 2019
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Atheism, Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Rob Sheldon responds to cosmologist Sean Carroll’s 19 True Facts of Cosmology

Denyse O'Leary
January 16, 2019
Atheism, Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Sean Carroll, an avowed atheist in the "scientism" camp of Bill Nye and Jerry Coyne, has made a list of apologia for the Big Bang (hereafter BB). You might wonder why there needs to be any apology at all if, as he himself says, "We have overwhelming evidence that it is true." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 22, 2018
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Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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Hugh Ross’s five best arguments from nature for the existence of God

Denyse O'Leary
July 22, 2018
Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism

And some objections. Via Mark Tapscott at HillFaith, from Hugh Ross at Reason to Believe: 1. origin of space, time, matter, and energy 2. origin of life 3. human exceptionalism 4. fine-tuning of the universe, Earth, and Earth’s life to make possible the existence and redemption of billions of humans 5. Genesis 1’s predictive power to accurately describe, in chronological order, key events in Earth’s history leading to humans More. Ross defends each one, for example, Origin of the universe: All our observations of the present and past state of the universe are consistent with a cosmic creation event that occurred 13.8 billion years ago. Some examples include (1) maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation; (2) past cosmic temperature Read More ›