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Long road to LUCA
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Origin-of-Life Researcher Admits, It’s “A Long, Long Way to LUCA”

Without intelligent design, how the "the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms" arose remains frustratingly elusive to theorists. Read More ›
free lunch
free lunch
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Materialist Origin-of-Life Solutions All Depend on a “Free Lunch”

This from Nature Reviews Chemistry caught our eye – an unexpectedly candid admission of how far origin-of-life research is from shedding real light on its subject. Read More ›
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theistic evolution
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Oracle Soup – Dialogue with a Theistic Evolutionist, Continued

We have no trouble rattling off any number of “conditions” that are relevant to the process of boiling alphabet soup. Read More ›
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Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›
Blue Ice, South Greenland
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Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios

This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason. Read More ›
Eifuku chimneys
engine
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Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue

A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors. Read More ›
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The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information

In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life. Read More ›
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Thermodynamics
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Thermodynamics of the Origin of Life

Popular articles on origin-of-life research often portray the field as constantly advancing and quickly converging on a purely materialistic explanation for the first cell. Read More ›
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Paul Nelson
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Humpty Dumpty and the Origin of Life — Paul Nelson at Texas A&M University, Thursday, March 30

Dr. Nelson will ask why a bacterial cell subjected to sterilizing sonication -- or death by sound -- will never come back to life. Ever. Read More ›
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MIT campus
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Asking the Right Questions: My Visit to Brown University and MIT

On a trip to Northeast campuses, I had the privilege of speaking to students about the evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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