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    In Free Will, What Makes it "Free"

    People have wills. They will to do this or that. To say that the will is "free" to do this or that - contra-causal freedom - requires, I propose, three things, at least. 1. A person must have an awareness of the choices available. 2. A person must have some sense of the value inherent in the...
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    Turns Out Eyes Are Not Poorly Designed

    Fiber optic light pipes in the retina do much more than simple image transfer "Having the photoreceptors at the back of the retina is not a design constraint, it is a design feature. The idea that the vertebrate eye, like a traditional front-illuminated camera, might have been improved somehow...
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    Defining Evolution

    This article on talk.origins could have been written by a creationist (despite the obligatory slur toward the end). http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-definition.html It says that "evolution" accounts for change in populations. Thus, evolution explains how the animals that came off the...
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    Big Bang - Still Speculation

    This article from Live Science: http://www.livescience.com/46478-universe-should-have-collapsed.html Universe Shouldn't Be Here, According to Higgs Physics "So if the universe shouldn't exist, why is it here? "The generic expectation is that there must be some new physics that we haven't put...
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    More Complex than Previously Thought - The New Scientific Mantra

    The creationists at ICR are at it again. They've been reading the journal, "Nature," and it's not looking good for the evolutionists. http://www.icr.org/article/8193/ "Once again the oft-repeated phrase "More complex than previously thought" has been used to describe new research cataloguing...
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    The Lowly Fruit Fly Befuddles the Evolutionists

    Here's the abstract from a neat article in Nature. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12962.html Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome "Animal transcriptomes are dynamic, with each cell type, tissue and organ system expressing an ensemble of...
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    Cells' Molecular Motor Diversity Confounds Evolution

    Genetics is not helping the evolutionists and the creationists are taking advantage. This from the Institute for Creation Research. <edited due to referred website restrictive copyrights> References Sebé-Pedrós, A. et al. 2014. Evolution and classification of myosins, a paneukaryotic...
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    Inflation Not All It's Cracked Up to Be

    http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ "He also takes the occasion to note the odd fact that while BICEP2 results have been claimed to be proof of inflation and the multiverse, if they turn out to be wrong, that’s fine too: 'The BICEP2 incident has also revealed a truth about...
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