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The Origin of Life: The Information Challenge

Today I will identify the fundamentally different approaches by ID advocates and critics toward assessing evidence. Read More ›
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The Origin of Life: Dangers of Taking Research Claims at Face Value

All simulations that purport to be breakthroughs in origins problems follow the same pattern. Read More ›
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Photo: Library shelves after an earthquake, by San José Public Library, via Flickr.

The Origin of Life: Correcting Common Mistakes on Thermodynamics

The driving tendencies in nature on the early Earth would have been analogous to seismic tremors rearranging the books in the library. Read More ›
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Prominent Retraction Vindicates Stephen Meyer and Signature in the Cell

Criticism suggested that Nobel laureate Jack Szostak and others were fast closing in on a solution to the origin-of-life problem with the “principle of RNA self-replication." Read More ›

James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry

A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want. Read More ›
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“The Ultimate Bootstrap”

Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter. Read More ›
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In a TED Talk, Here’s the Question You May Not Ask

Riccardo Sabatini is charming. He has the TED style down (who teaches them all to talk that way?), and he deploys some memorable images. Read More ›
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Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›
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Michael Shermer and the Laws of Complexity

Recently, atheist Michael Shermer debated Catholic philosopher Edward Feser. The subject was Feser’s new book on five arguments for the existence of God. Read More ›

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