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2021

Airgas
Photo: Airgas delivers its products, by Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research

In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Read More ›
alien life
Photo credit: Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash.

Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Read More ›
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson
Photo: Jordan Peterson, via YouTube.

Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›
Taking Leave of Darwin
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Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Read More ›
car break-in
Photo: A car break-in, by WhyDolls, via Flickr.

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Read More ›
Galápagos_finch
Photo: Galápagos finch, by Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›
Eric Hedin
Photo: Eric Hedin, by Tina Hedin.

Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin

The idea of setting a percentage to the chances of ID being true reminds me of Hedin’s fellow physicist, Nobel Prize-winner Brian Josephson. Read More ›
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Image: Illustration from Frankenstein, 1922, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Google books) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›
missing-link-1
Photo: An image from Human Zoos, via Discovery Institute.

Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›

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