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Denyse is a staunch evangelical Catholic, whose religious extremism and reality denial leaves her at odds with her more civilized home town of Toronto. In addition to her advocation for intelligent design she spends a great deal of time bemoaning the treatment of the poor oppressed non-secularist in Canada <ref>[http://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/christiancrat-vs-independent-christian-journalists/ Yet another blog and another post by O'Leary this time on evil Canada]</ref>. In a shocking development someone in the religious studies department at the University of Toronto saw fit to let Denyse ''actually'' teach a course!<ref>[http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/10/course-by-design-or-by-chance.html Denyse O'Leary:Teacher?]</ref> Luckily it was merely a continuing education course (not offered for credit). One [[user:Tmtoulouse | RationalWiki editor's]] attempt at getting a free "audit" of the course was met with much scorn. | Denyse is a staunch evangelical Catholic, whose religious extremism and reality denial leaves her at odds with her more civilized home town of Toronto. In addition to her advocation for intelligent design she spends a great deal of time bemoaning the treatment of the poor oppressed non-secularist in Canada <ref>[http://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/christiancrat-vs-independent-christian-journalists/ Yet another blog and another post by O'Leary this time on evil Canada]</ref>. In a shocking development someone in the religious studies department at the University of Toronto saw fit to let Denyse ''actually'' teach a course!<ref>[http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/10/course-by-design-or-by-chance.html Denyse O'Leary:Teacher?]</ref> Luckily it was merely a continuing education course (not offered for credit). One [[user:Tmtoulouse | RationalWiki editor's]] attempt at getting a free "audit" of the course was met with much scorn. | ||
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| + | O'Leary's writing style is horribly obtuse and long winded. It is often very difficult to get through any of her postings that are longer than 2-3 words. Even more difficult is figuring out what the hell she is talking about half the time. However, there is one thing you can always count on with Denyse and that's her complete lack of shame. She will drop the titles of all books she has written 10-12 times in a blog post each with a link back to amazon. Internet watchers have nicknamed her "Denyse 'buy my book' O'Leary" after this annoying tendency. But then again she does have that kitty to feed. | ||
==Denyse O'Leary's books== | ==Denyse O'Leary's books== | ||
Revision as of 21:10, 13 August 2008
Denyse O'Leary is a Canadian Intelligent design apologist who claims to be a journalist. Her primary means of publication is a string of self-started internet blogs and a few that other people have started that she parasitizes. O'Leary's primary means of support appears to be begging for PayPal donation in order to "feed the kitty" (don't let the imagery run wild on this one, really, don't).[1] Probably her most notable publishing outlet is at William Dembski's blog Uncommon Descent. Other than that there is little evidence of actual journalism. Denyse would argue otherwise claiming that all non-blog based media is "legacy media" that no one reads anyway.[2] O'Leary appears to be betting the kitty on the New York Times subscribers tuning out of print media and tuning into her bottom barrel blog sites.
In addition to playing make believe journalist O'Leary has written several apologist books for intelligent design, most notably By Design or by Chance. She has also recently taken up the fallen banner for non-materialist neuroscience publishing a book The Spiritual Brain thumping for mind/body duality. In addition to the book, in typical O'Leary fashion, she has started yet another blog dedicated to proving that the ghost in the machine really does live in the pineal gland.[3]
Denyse is a staunch evangelical Catholic, whose religious extremism and reality denial leaves her at odds with her more civilized home town of Toronto. In addition to her advocation for intelligent design she spends a great deal of time bemoaning the treatment of the poor oppressed non-secularist in Canada [4]. In a shocking development someone in the religious studies department at the University of Toronto saw fit to let Denyse actually teach a course![5] Luckily it was merely a continuing education course (not offered for credit). One RationalWiki editor's attempt at getting a free "audit" of the course was met with much scorn.
O'Leary's writing style is horribly obtuse and long winded. It is often very difficult to get through any of her postings that are longer than 2-3 words. Even more difficult is figuring out what the hell she is talking about half the time. However, there is one thing you can always count on with Denyse and that's her complete lack of shame. She will drop the titles of all books she has written 10-12 times in a blog post each with a link back to amazon. Internet watchers have nicknamed her "Denyse 'buy my book' O'Leary" after this annoying tendency. But then again she does have that kitty to feed.
Denyse O'Leary's books
- Faith@Science: Why Science Needs Faith in the Twenty-First Century 2001. Initial foray into the world of pop apologetics, O'leary reviews current hot button issues in science (like cloning, stem cell research, etc.) and claims only Christians can offer moral guidance in making choices in science.
- By Design Or By Chance?: The Growing Controversy On The Origins Of Life In The Universe 2004. O'leary's attempt to capitalize on the intelligent design movement she flogs the manufactured controversy using interviews from major proponents like William Dembski and Phillip Johnson.
- The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul 2008. A co-authored book with Mario Beauregard O'leary once again attempts to create a controversy that doesn't exist. Shoddy science and cereal box theology mark her attempts at establishing a non-materialist neuroscience.
Denyse O'Leary's blogs
- Post-darwinist O'leary reality denial extends all the way up to the title of this blog. Supposedly we exist in a world that no longer believes in Darwinism. This blog is supposedly about her intelligent design rants related to her By Deign or By Chance book, but like all her blogs there is plenty of cross pollination.
- Mindfulhack O'Leary created this blog during the publishing push for her spiritual brain book. Mostly a hodgepodge of popular press stories twisted to fit her world view, but the copious rants against evolutionary psychology keep things a little interesting.
- The design of life The Design of Life is a Jonathan Wells and William Dembski joint back from 2007. Dembski started a blog to go with the book and then turned it over to O'Leary whose endless need to ejaculate her burdensome prose on every website she finds knows no bounds.
- Colliding universes O'Leary is on an anti-multiverse theory kick, apparently the multiverse theory in physics is a substantial threat to her religion. She is threatening to write a book on the topic, but in the mean time she started yet another blog.
- Uncommon descent William Dembski's brain child of a blog, which he abandoned and turned over to various sycophants including Denyse O'Leary.
- Overwhelming evidence Another William Dembski brain child, this one is a total still born though, it was to be the next Myspace for intelligent deign savvy teensters. Its major claim to fame is a flatulence laced flash animation of judge John E. Jones from Kitzmiller fame. Instead of an army of teens all Dembski got was O'Leary.
