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Dembski and Wells’s The Design of Life: Advanced Online Curriculum Available Now!

Delve into the data surrounding the origin of life, specified and irreducible complexity, genetics, the fossil record, human origins, natural selection, and more. 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 ›
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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 ›
Origins

Escape from Randomness: Can Foldons Explain Protein Functional Shapes?

Faced with impossible odds, materialists struggle to find natural laws that can fold a protein correctly the way life does. Read More ›

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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Dan Graur, Darwin’s Reactionary

To call him this is an irony, I realize, since the University of Houston evolutionary biologist and Junk DNA diehard is a flaming left-winger. Read More ›
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“Life Is a Discontinuity in the Universe”

There are 37 trillion cells in the human body, some 200 cell types, and 12,000+ specialized proteins. How does it all come together? Read More ›

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