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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charles Murray, Coming Apart, materialism, modernism, Nancy Pearcey, post-modernism, Richard Dawkins, soul, Steven Pinker, Taking Religion Seriously, terminal lucidity, Wall Street Journal}

As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

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November 5, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›

science laboratory test tubes , lab equipment for research new medical

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Anna Krylov, atheism, brains, cancel culture, censorship, diversity, humans, inclusion, mammals, materialism, Nature (journal), Popular Science, private truth, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Steven Pinker}

When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2025

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Read More ›

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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

_{Denyse O’Leary
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
Neil Thomas

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, British Rationalist Association, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, evolution, False Messiah, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Selfish Gene, theism, There Is a God, Tom Wolfe, William Wordsworth, Woody Allen}

False Messiah: An Addendum on Darwin and Theism

_{Neil Thomas
October 22, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The standpoint of poet John Keats is certainly gaining resonance in our doubt-ridden 21st century. I for one welcome its openness to questioning and wonder. Read More ›

Hands folded in prayer on a Holy Bible in church concept for faith

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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

_{Denyse O’Leary
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 ›

A white window with purple butterflies flying out of it, looking at the sea outside the glass, white gauze curtain fluttering in the wind, sunset, Generative AI illustrations.

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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

_{Denyse O’Leary
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 ›

Magic imaginary world full with color and happiness. Generative ai.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 22, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, evidence, evolutionary biology, fundamentalism, gravity, human origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, Scopes Monkey Trial, subjectivism, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan}

In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, Casey Luskin, culture, education, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes}

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, David Hullender, engineered systems, evolution, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Olen Brown, peer review, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Quillette, Richard Dawkins, Scopes trial, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne and His Readers Attack Academic Freedom, and Call for More Intolerance

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It became clear that Coyne’s whole point was to gin up harassment of the journal so they won’t publish critiques of evolution in the future. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cancel culture, Christianity, evidence-based medicine, faith and science, Judaism, New Zealand, private truth, Richard Dawkins, scientific enterprise, The God Delusion, Tibi Puiu}

When We Lose Religion, We Lose Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Richard Dawkins watches as science teeters off a cliff, yet learns nothing of value. Read More ›