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Denyse O'Leary
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May 17, 2022
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At Evolution News: How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

Denyse O'Leary
May 17, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
West: Unfortunately, the Buffalo shooter’s evolutionary racism is not an outlier among recent mass killers. Arguments drawn from evolution have been prominent in the ideologies of many mass shooters in recent years, including Anders Breivik in 2011, a Norwegian mass murderer cited as a role model by the Buffalo shooter. Other shooters smitten by Darwinian evolution have included the Columbine High School shooters in 1999, Finnish shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen in 2007, the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter in 2009, and the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter in 2019. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 11, 2022
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Richard Weikart on the non-religious racism that anti-racists ignore

Denyse O'Leary
May 11, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Weikart: While researching my book, Darwinian Racism, I examined the websites and publications of many neo-Nazi, white nationalist, and alt-right individuals and organizations. What I discovered was that most white nationalists and white supremacists today embrace a social Darwinist version of scientific racism and vehemently oppose Christianity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 9, 2022
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Casey Luskin asks: Can claims about punctuated equilibrium accommodate the scientific data?

Denyse O'Leary
May 9, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Luskin: Punctuated equilibrium compresses the vast majority of evolutionary change into small populations that lived during shorter segments of time, allowing too few opportunities for novel, beneficial traits to arise. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 20, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Darwin wrote a book about orchids — and it was better received than Origin of Species

Denyse O'Leary
April 20, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
Shedinger: Unlike with the Origin, the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Reviewers were extremely impressed with Darwin’s detailed documentation of the variety of contrivances in orchids. But much to Darwin’s dismay, they did not see this as evidence of natural selection. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 19, 2022
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Few want to hear this but … Darwinism made racism science

Denyse O'Leary
April 19, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
For reasons familiar to anyone who follows human psychology, our group was supposed to be the smartest. We were told to be nice to the others anyway. They couldn’t help their stupidity, nor could we. That was the view smart people had. Stupid Fundamentalists, by contrast, still believed in Adam and Eve… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 14, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Richard Buggs’s talk on the abominable mystery of flowers now available

Denyse O'Leary
April 14, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
Intro: Charles Darwin was convinced that the evolution of complexity must proceed by tiny steps. Only tiny steps could be accumulated by natural selection. The process had to go slowly for it to work. Billions of years were needed. But Darwin was aware that this theory had a problem: flowers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 11, 2022
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At Skeptic mag: Colleague defends Darwinian great E. O. Wilson from accusations of racism

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
But again, wait. Racism wasn’t an incidental, culturally conditioned element in Rushton’s work. It appears to have been the point of it. If the great E. O. Wilson couldn’t see that, the likely explanation is that elements in Darwinism blinded him to what was pretty obvious to most of Rushton’s fellow Canadians. And why IS that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 10, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Is Christianity Today twisting the Bible to fit Darwinian evolution?

Denyse O'Leary
April 10, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
Gilson: Christianity Today is supposed to be the voice of evangelical Christianity. Here, though, it has totally capitulated to a naturalized view of human origins. It’s giving in to a view that many evangelicals reject for good scientific reasons. Note: Gilson ends by recommending skeptic Neil Thomas’s Taking Leave of Darwin (2021) instead. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 9, 2022
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Eye evolution as a series of miracles of the Darwinian religion

Denyse O'Leary
April 9, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
Surely the best approach is to see these convenient cascades of functional machinery as the miracle stories of Darwinism. They are not subject to criticism as to their probability, which is why no Darwinian need take such criticism seriously. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 8, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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People who doubt “evolution” are more likely to be racist?

Denyse O'Leary
April 8, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Reader's comment on the study: The principle that isolation breeds prejudice against the “other” is a truism. And you could find evidence supporting this truism from very different groups. If you surveyed attitude of ivory tower types you’d find similar prejudiced against conservative religious groups you’d find similar discriminatory attitudes. Why? Because those evolutionary secular academic types who accept human evolution have very little contact with conservative religious people. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 5, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Science, Tree of life
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As evolutionary biologists slowly kill off Darwinism… hacking down the Tree of Life, even…

Denyse O'Leary
April 5, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Science, Tree of life
Species merging. Julie Berwald: What I didn’t know then was that, even as I ambivalently placed the overhead film on the projector, the concept of the tree of life had begun to wilt. Four decades on, it’s morphed entirely. Read More ›