Tag: Ireland

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, ATP synthase, bacterial cell division, bacterial flagellar motor, bacterial flagellum, biofilm, chemotaxis, chess, Design Inference, DNA replication, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, John Danaher, Magnus Carlsen, mousetrap, natural selection, proton pump, syllogism, theism, University of Galway}

A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Danaher’s critiques of irreducible complexity are poorly informed and based on misunderstandings of intelligent design and what its key defenders argue. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 6, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, education, environmental fitness, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Danaher, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, motives, Phillip E. Johnson, prior probability, probability theory, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, University of Galway, William A. Dembski}

Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 6, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

9}

If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, consciousness, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Ireland, James Tour, neurons, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Richard Dawkins}

Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

4}

I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cancel culture, climate change, Cold War, dairy cows, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Hiroshima, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, McCarthyism, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, Oppenheimer, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, United States, wrongthink}

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

6}

Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortionists, anti-humanism, cancer, dairy cows, David Attenborough, diagnosis, ecocide, ecosystem, electricity, food, fuel, humans, Ireland, Jack Kevorkian, Slate, stewardship, terminal illness}

Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, authoritarianism, Canada, Congress, cows, Ireland, Netherlands, pandemic, Paris accords, President, public health, Simon Fraser University, Switzerland, technocracy, United States, World Health Organization}

Is the Plan to Impose a Public-Health Technocracy Faltering?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

In February, I warned about a treaty being negotiated to empower the WHO to declare a pandemic, which would trigger governments assuming emergency powers. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, basalt lava glass, beauty, bees, Casey Luskin, Cassini mission, design filter, Giant’s Causeway, Grand Canyon, hexagons, intelligence, intelligent design, Ireland, Jupiter, natural laws, Physical Review Letters, physicists, Saturn, snowflakes, Voyager spacecraft, William A. Dembski}

Applying the Design Filter to Hexagons

_{David Coppedge
July 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

9}

The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 13, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, authoritarianism, BBC News, Canada, civil rights, doctors, euthanasia, health care, hospital, human rights, Ireland, liberty, medical conscience, nurses, Roman Catholic}

Medical Conscience Crisis Comes to Ireland

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 13, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This is not only authoritarian — shattering the guarantees of religious liberty in virtually all existing human-rights accords — but could cause a significant brain drain. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, confession, Dublin, Europe, health, hospital, Ireland, lifestyle, Margaret Sanger, medicine, modernism, mother, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, parenthood, pregnancy, pyramids, Roman Catholic, Stonehenge}

Ireland Goes Back to Its Roots

_{Michael Egnor
June 3, 2018

Bioethics, Faith & Science

5}

It is a matter of fact — a straightforward scientific fact known since the basics of human reproduction were first understood — that human life begins at fertilization of the egg by the sperm. Read More ›

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Date
August 16, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", China, Christopher Columbus, chronology, Greece, history, Ireland, lunar eclipse, Mark Twain, NASA, Old Testament, solar eclipse}

The Impact of Solar Eclipses for History

_{Science and Culture
August 16, 2017

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

When the sky goes dark at mid-day, people notice. Read More ›