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Challenge to Origin of Life
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Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›
Transhumanists
Image: Transhumanists, by David Revoy / Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Humans Have Limits. Transhumanists Want to Overcome Them

Transhumanism, arguably an offshoot of neo-Darwinism, is set on envisioning the next grand step of human evolution. Read More ›
Long Story Short
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Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Read More ›
Long Story on Replication
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On Origin of Life, New Long Story Skewers Materialist Doctrine

The OOL researchers don’t believe they are cheating or stealing. They’re not dishonest, or stupid. But they are fooling themselves. Read More ›
Stenopterygius quadriscissus
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New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›
Abraham Lincoln
Photo: Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Read More ›
Glires
Photo: Palaeolagus haydeni, James St. John, Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›
beaver
Photo: A beaver, depicted on the Canadian Parliament Building, by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›
Dave Farina
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James Tour Dismantles Dave Farina’s Expert Witnesses on the State of Origin-of-Life Research 

Farina is a committed atheist who has demonstrated that he is not encumbered by the same ethical standards that James Tour is. Read More ›

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