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2021

MOLO RNA world
Image credit: Brian Gage.

James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Properly Combining Building Blocks

Any progress toward life would be lost if a fully functional cell did not emerge within a reasonably short period of time. Read More ›
San Francisco from space
Photo: San Francisco from space, by NASA.

Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

When one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. Read More ›
Meyer Metaxas
God Hypothesis
Photo: Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.

Metaxas, Meyer: Materialist Moves Are “Desperate and Kind of Pathetic”

Eric Metaxas talked with Stephen Meyer in a (what else did you expect?) highly entertaining interview. Watch it now. Read More ›
golf
Photo credit: Andrew Shelley, via Unsplash.

James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Synthesis of the Building Blocks

"The analogy that comes to mind is a golfer, who having played a ball through an 18-hole course, assumed the ball could also play the course in his absence." Read More ›
Brian Keating
Photo: Brian Keating, by Brucelieberman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions

I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions. Read More ›
Keating meme

Today: With a New Book, Stephen Meyer and Intelligent Design Go on Super-Offense

Take a look at what Brian Keating, a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at U.C. San Diego, has to say. Read More ›
Tribrachidium
Photo: Tribrachidium, by Captmondo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evans et al. (2021): All Four Examples Debunked

Evans et al. (2021) seem to have been well aware of the circular reasoning in their argument. Read More ›
Tribrachidium
Photo: Tribrachidium, by https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Tribrachidium_heraldicum_34.jpg.

Unknown Biology of Trilobozoa

Not much is known about the anatomy, biology, and ecology of the enigmatic trilobozoans. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, via Wikimedia Commons.

Another Problem with the “Anti-Evolution” Label

The so-called “anti-evolution” charge against intelligent design is what sparked my initial interest in Alfred Russel Wallace some years ago. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Dr. Meyer's Facebook page.

Meyer Interview in World Magazine: Big Bang as “the First Effect, the First Event”

It had not occurred to me that anyone would see the beginning of the universe as a challenge to their faith, but evidently some do. Read More ›

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