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Thomas Huxley

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At The Times of London: “Charles Darwin will be next if his great defender is toppled”

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Huh? What? If Huxley (or Darwin) is cancelled, “the practice of science itself no longer matters.” Well, that’s true but for Cancel Culture, that’s a feature, not a bug. It shows their immense power, generally in the robes of victimhood. Has none of these people been paying attention to the war on math and the war on science? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 28, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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It begins at last… T. H. Huxley, Darwin’s bulldog, about to be Cancelled – other early Darwinists to get the chop soon?

Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
W. D. Hamilton, Ronald Fisher, and J. B. S. Haldane are also threatened. We never thought it would happen but it is happening… so fast. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 14, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
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Was Thomas Henry Huxley the first science journalist?

Denyse O'Leary
September 14, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
What Huxley was marketing was not a correct analysis of the cause of the plague but one that promoted materialism. Today, for example, we constantly hear similar stuff like - just for example - “science is closing in on the human mind” or “apes think like people.” They can’t help it, of course, but Huxley’s career might help us understand better how it got started. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 12, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At Nature: An honest attempt to come to terms with Darwinism’s role in eugenics

Denyse O'Leary
October 12, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
With eugenics, as with racism, all critics want is an honest acknowledgment of the sources, not butt-covering bafflegab. It doesn’t matter now except for the butt-covering bafflegab. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 11, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Why Thomas Huxley was wrong about monkeys, typing forever, producing Shakespeare

Denyse O'Leary
September 11, 2019
Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Russ White: It is not enough, as Turing proposed, to trick a person into thinking a computer is a person. Somewhere there must be a person who intends this result. If the artificial intelligence cannot provide that intent, then the person who designs the system must. Read More ›