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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, cancel culture, Christians, Daniel Dennett, Enlightenment, evidence, God the Science the Evidence, Jesus Christ, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Middle Ages, Olivier Bonnassies, private truth, Renaissance, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, universe, Wall Street Journal}

Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

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October 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 25, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Tagged
, causation, complexity, cosmos, emergence, ignorance, materialistic philosophy, philosophers, promissory materialism, scientists, Washington University}

Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

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October 25, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution

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The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure, death, dementia, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, medicine, New York City, prevention, Quebec, Science Alert, Tibi Puiu, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

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October 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Psychology
Tagged
, Antony Flew, artifacts, brain, cave art, death, dying, human beings, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Ohio State University, paleontology, pseudoscience, psychology, Psychology Today, The Immortal Mind, There Is a God}

In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

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October 22, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology, Psychology

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This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, cancel culture, Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologists, gender, Harvard University, Princeton University, puberty blockers, Steven Pinker, survival, Tablet, The Atlantic, The Lancet, truth, Washington Post}

In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

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October 21, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

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Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Charles Murray, ChatGPT, Christianity, Coming Apart, consciousness, faith and science, Gospels, intellectuals, J. D. Vance, Jordan Peterson, Justin Brierley, media, New Atheism, Politics, Richard Dawkins, Taking Religion Seriously, UnHerd, universe}

Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing

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October 19, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science

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Not what you heard? Well, if you heard something else from traditional media, maybe those media aren’t so reliable any more. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheists, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Europeans, God the Science the Evidence, Greeks, intellectuals, Jerry Coyne, mathematics, New Zealand, Pythagorean Theorem, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, transgender, war on math, whiteness, Why Evolution Is True}

On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Went Out the Window

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October 16, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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All of this decay when atheists were considered to be the primary spokespeople for science. And they have yielded the floor to irrational forces. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 15, 2025

Categories
Planetology
Scientific Reasoning
Technology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Avi Loeb, BBC, Carl Sagan, David Kipping, extraterrestrials, Gizmodo, Jonathan O’Callaghan, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Principle of Mediocrity, Science Alert, Science Focus, SETI, solar system, technology, technosignatures, The Privileged Planet}

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

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October 15, 2025

Planetology, Scientific Reasoning, Technology

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The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, butterfly, Christianity, eliminative materialism, fine-tuning, First Cause, France, Garden of Eden, God the Science the Evidence, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophers, Roman Catholic Church, Sunday Times, The Spiritual Brain, UnHerd, universes}

Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

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October 12, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book raises a stark question. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, eliminative materialism, idealism, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, supernatural}

One Reason Near-Death Experiences Are Hard to Study

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October 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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When the mind is dissociated from the body briefly, it may acquire actual knowledge — as in NDEs where the knowledge acquired is later confirmed. Read More ›