Category: Origin of Life

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, astrobiologists, atmosphere, building blocks, Casey Luskin, chemical reactions, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (comet), comet theory, comets, David Coppedge, early Earth, get out of jail free card, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, intelligent direction, life, Lord Kelvin, Mars, materialists, Monopoly (game), organic molecules, origin of life, panspermia, Richard Anslow, Svante Arrhenius, undirected panspermia, University of Cambridge, William Dembski}

Say Goodbye to This Origin-of-Life “Get Out of Jail Free Card”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, beginning, complex entities, cosmology, designer, DNA, Dunkirk, Energy, engines, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, French recipes, infinite regress, information, initial entropy, intelligent design, matter, mind, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Ockham’s razor, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, uncaused cause, universe, worldview}

Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, A Universe from Nothing, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, chance, Dan Graur, design, ENCODE project, Jerry Coyne, junk DNA, junk RNA, Lawrence Krauss, Leonard Mlodinow, lizard brain, Michael Shermer, models, physicists, researchers, Richard Dawkins, Sarah Scoles, Science and Culture Today, Scientific American, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, survival, The God Delusion, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, University of Houston}

In Science, Endless Competing Models Are a Warning Sign

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Genetics, Origin of Life

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Some of us are old enough to remember when the origin of life was a question that science would answer — soon. But that was hundreds of promising theories ago. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2026

Categories
Origin of Life
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bases, Canada, David Catling, gatekeepers, intelligent agency, Last Chance Lake, Leslie Orgel, life, Maikel Rheinstädter, McMaster University, metabolism, nucleotides, organic compounds, origin of life, origin-of-life researchers, phosphate, phosphate problem, planetary scientists, primitive earth, reporters, ribose, RNA, RNA world, Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, scientific consensus, self-replicating RNA, Stanley Miller, storytelling, The Origins of Life on the Earth, University of Washington, voodoo science, wishful thinking}

On Origin of Life, Scientific American Starts Sober, Quickly Relapses into Speculation

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2026

Origin of Life, Science Reporting

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A proposal by University of Washington planetary scientist David Catling addresses what origin-of-life researchers call the phosphate problem. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, architecture, biological systems, biology, cell boundary, cells, chance events, charge gradients, chemical mixture, chemical reactions, chemical transformations, chemistry, complexity, control, control systems, coordinated manufacturing, coordination, emerging system, Energy, energy management, engineering, environmental sources, equilibrium, experiments, feedback regulation, hydrothermal vents, information, information processing, intentions, life, natural engines, natural processes, organization, origin of life, physical forces, proteins, thermodynamics, undirected natural processes}

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, acids, adaptation, architectural plan, autonomy, catalysts, crystallization, designer, drying, early Earth, Energy, environment, experiments, feedstock, filtration, gases, high-pressure catalytic reactors, high-temperature furnaces, information, intelligent design, life, machinery, manufacturing specifications, Miller-Urey experiment, natural materials, nature, origin of life, pathway to life, purification, reagents, reproduction, Research, self-organizational processes, synthetic chemists, unguided chemistry}

Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 8, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 6, 2026

Categories
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biology, Christoph Adami, Conservation of Information, encoded information, evolution, functional sequences, information, intelligent design, mathematics, monkeys, monomers, origin of life, randomness, RNA world, Scrabble, The Evolution of Biological Information, William A. Dembski, William Shakespeare}

Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge

_{Winston Ewert
September 6, 2026

Mathematics, Origin of Life

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But what if instead of keyboards, the familiar monkeys were drawing Scrabble tiles? Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacteria, calcium ions, calcium signals, eukaryotic cells, evolution, higher animals, humans, Institute of Phototrophic Microbiology, intelligent design, Khaled Selim, Phys.org, prehistory}

That Was Fast: From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years

_{Science & Culture
September 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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That’s now just 1 billion years for all the apparatus to hit on the lucky combination randomly, unless we start with design principles. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, carbohydrates, cellular metabolism, chemistry, control feedback loops, embedded computing, Energy, enzymes, feedstock, formaldehyde, informational system, intelligent design, iron, lipids, microspheres, minimally complex cells, molybdenum, Nayan Chakraborty, organic molecules, origin of life, origin-of-life literature, peptides, philosophical commitments, phosphate, protocells, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Shashi Thutupalli, signal processing, specified complexity, spherules, storytelling, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Protocell Pretensions: The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

_{Brian Miller
September 3, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›