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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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A pharma science prof explains how to “confront anti-science”

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
No. The question isn’t whether science is a good thing but whether the current establishment is in fact focused on science or on maintaining/regaining control through pronouncements about “science” and edicts stemming from those pronouncements. One needn’t look far to see examples of the latter. And what to do about that is the discussion we need to have. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 24, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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What “Trust the Science” does with massive amounts of data: Withholds it!

Denyse O'Leary
February 24, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
West goes on to point out other instances. The big question is, has secretiveness, deception, and a resulting hunger for authoritarian rule based on “science” has become a way of life in the upper echelons of a high-tech society? And then the biggest questions looms: What to do about it? At one time, it was just Darwin gibber in the schools and such-like stuff. Now it is getting more serious. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 19, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Claim: Intelligent design theory is a science stopper

Denyse O'Leary
February 19, 2022
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Cornelius Hunter takes it on. Incidentally, the fact that this promissory materialism, for which Darwinism is the origin story, is all hype and no hope never means anything. A fresh batch of media will bring up the same worn themes. And it's as close to science as large numbers of educated mediocrities ever want to get. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 17, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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When the Centers for Disease Control abandon science…

Denyse O'Leary
February 17, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Prasad: "Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. This research is plagued with classic errors and biases, and does not support the press-released conclusions that often follow." After a while, the public will catch on. The reputation of science is not going to do well out of the “Trust the Science!” phase. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 15, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Science
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At Mind Matters News: We trust nonsense from lab coats more than from gurus

Denyse O'Leary
February 15, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Science
It’s hard to understand why the researchers take comfort from finding that, worldwide, people will believe absolute nonsense if it comes from scientists. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, rhetoric
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Darwinian evolution and apparently suboptimal design

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, rhetoric
Cornelius Hunter points out that the most powerful arguments for schoolbook Darwinism are theological in character: What God wouldn’t do, etc. And they also apply only to alternative viewpoints, not to core Darwinism itself. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2022
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: Michael Egnor’s challenge to two atheists who deny free will

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2022
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor is challenging evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci to a debate. He thinks there is too much of this no-free-will nonsense in the science blogosphere. Egnor: "Free will has no physical cause? At least four categories of events in nature have no physical cause. Free will denial isn’t science, just atheism in a lab coat." 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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February 6, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Philosophy, Science
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Can the Higgs boson give believers their multiverse? Shot and chaser

Denyse O'Leary
February 6, 2022
Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Philosophy, Science
The obvious difficulty is that the multiverse drags in inconceivable complexity in order to solve comparatively common, minor issues of the sort that science always faces. People don’t think of that approach as a solution unless they have a vested philosophical and emotional interest in the idea. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 5, 2022
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Canada, Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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What I saw at the Freedom Convoy in downtown Victoria – various updates

Denyse O'Leary
February 5, 2022
Canada, Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
It was all friendly; people were having a good time. There was no violence; I heard no racial epithets and saw no racial insignia. So if media tell you that it is really about white nationalsm, etc., remember that the legacy Canadian media are in fact supported to stay in business by the federal government. Because few depend on them for news any more. Read More ›
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January 29, 2022
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Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Logic and Reason, Mathematics, Philosophy

L&FP, 49: Debating the validity (and objectivity) of infinity

kairosfocus
January 29, 2022
Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Logic and Reason, Mathematics, Philosophy

Steve Patterson, among many points of objection, is doubtful on the modern concept of infinity (or more strictly the transfinite): The foundations of modern mathematics are flawed. A logical contradiction is nestled at the very core, and it’s been there for a century. Of all the controversial ideas I hold, this is the most radical. I disagree with nearly all professional mathematicians, and I think they’ve made an elementary error that most children would discover. It’s about infinity. I’ve written about infinity here, here, and here, and each article points to the same conclusion: There are no infinite sets. Not only do infinite sets not exist, but the very concept is logically contradictory – no different than “square circles”. Infinite Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 27, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Philosophy, Science
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At Medium: Six scientific paradoxes on offer that will “blow your mind”

Denyse O'Leary
January 27, 2022
Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Philosophy, Science
Dinelka: Imagine you are a time traveler. You decide to meet the great greek philosopher, Pythagoras of Samos, and introduce him to the fantastic relation among the three sides of the right-angled triangle. You introduce and you leave ... Read More ›