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Author
James M. Tour

Date
April 7, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, air, carbohydrates, chemical reactions, chemicals, DNA, earth, first life, homochirality, information processing, information storage, lipids, metabolism, molecules, nanomachines, natural processes, nucleic acids, panspermia, proteins, RNA, sunlight, synthetic chemists, water}

Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

_{James M. Tour
April 7, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, black holes, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, geophysics, habitability, hydrogen, intelligent design, life, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle}

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 6, 2023

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth

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In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, William of Ockham, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Belgium, civilization, culture, emotions, feelings, females, gender, gender dysphoria, Germany, males, society, thought, transgenderism}

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences

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The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ATP synthase, bacterial cell, cells, complexity, DNA, efficiency, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary biologists, humpback whale, Illustra Media, ingenuity, intelligent design, Living Waters, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural selection, PNAS, proofreading, proteins, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Tim Standish, Uppsala University}

Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now

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April 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The flip side of Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as a designer substitute is that “things look designed — because they are designed.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, aquarium, killer whales, New York Times, orcas}

Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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I understand the motive, but this could be a case of ideology trumping actual animal welfare. And I can’t help thinking of the Little Prince’s fox. Read More ›

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Date
April 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, breaking things, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, flasks, genes, genetic information, ID the Future, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, niche advantages, novelty, oxygen, podcast}

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

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April 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Social Sciences
Tagged
, agency, Andrea Roli, computer science, economy, ecosystems, evolution, innovation, intelligent design, naturalism, ontology, scholars, scientific knowledge, Siberia, Stuart A. Kauffman, teleology}

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

_{Paul Nelson
March 31, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Social Sciences

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›

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Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Altos Labs, Amazon, cells, Daily Mail, disease, Elon Musk, eschaton, futurists, Google, human beings, immortality, Jeff Bezos, longevity, nanobots, Ray Kurzweil, robots, transhumanists, utopianism}

Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

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March 31, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist? Read More ›