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Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Read More ›
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Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too. Read More ›
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Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›
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God and the Odds of ET

There is a rational and intellectually defensible strategy for maintaining a measure of optimism about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›
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No. 6 Story of 2024: Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›
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Information, Entropy, and the First Life

Some push back with the argument that the Earth is an open system, gaining energy from the sun. Is that a workaround for a naturalistic account of life? Read More ›
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Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin on Entropy and the Origin of Life

Physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds? Read More ›
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New Study Triggers Key Origin of Life Questions

The leap from non-life to life represents a huge jump in complexity and information, one that cannot be explained by reference to a stepwise, gradual process. Read More ›
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Father Martin Hilbert on Darwinism’s Fatal Flaws

Fr. Hilbert reveals that one of Darwin’s motives for conjuring his theory of natural selection was removing God from the picture. Read More ›

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