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Stephen Jay Gould

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 28, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Why punctuated equilibrium did not rescue modern evolutionary theory

Denyse O'Leary
March 28, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Re Stephen Jay Gould returning to traditional Darwinism: Didn’t E. O. Wilson try escaping the vice grip of Darwinism with “group selection” and then dramatically returning to full orthodoxy, leaving many dozens of supporters stranded? Complete academy acceptance is a powerful motivator… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2022
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Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Is Stephen Jay Gould now considered a… creationist?

Denyse O'Leary
February 25, 2022
Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Overheard in the Uncommon Descent News virtual coffee room: “It figures, eh? And I’m pretty sure that was Richard Dawkins I saw passing out free copies of Behe’s A Mousetrap for Darwin on the Toronto subway.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 27, 2021
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Convergent evolution, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Exoplanets: The same laws of physics means similar life forms

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2021
Convergent evolution, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
Even on Earth, life forms of widely differing ancestry, arrive at the same solutions to physics problems, leading scientists note. On Simon Conway Morris's view, life forms that fly on exoplanets will do what birds, bats, and insects do here, they say. Intelligent species may even look roughly like us. Read More ›