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Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›
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An Extraterrestrial Spin on the RNA World

The authors argue that RNA molecules appeared in warm little ponds more than 4.17 billion years ago, transported by “meteorites and interplanetary dust particles." Read More ›
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Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective

I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too. Read More ›
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When Science Turns Mushy

Certain subjects, all posing ultimate questions, reduce much of scientific talk to pablum. Why do you think that is? Read More ›
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Cheaters Never Prosper? Sure They Do in Origin-of-Life Papers

How can scientists get away with publishing patent nonsense when it comes to the origin of life? Read More ›
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Warm Little Pond? PNAS Paper Admits Difficulties Generating RNA on Prebiotic Earth

“Warm little ponds,” in Darwin's quaint expression, are actually very hostile environments for generating nucleotides. Read More ›
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“Communism Was Welded to Darwinism”

You never know who’s going to turn up at Q&A with Jonathan Wells and John West. Read More ›

Spot the Problems in This Story

On an alien planet, as astronaut discovers cars that conceive, gestate, and give birth to smaller cars. Read More ›
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On Origin of Life and More, Ideological Correctness Plagues Science

Ian O’Neill discusses origin-of-life research, and bizarrely restricts the explanations to “fluke” or “physics.” Read More ›

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