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Metaphysical Tolerance: A Discipline for Progress 

The quest for truth has never been easy, and has on more than a few occasions been known to make one unpopular. Read More ›
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Charles Thaxton on a “Controversial” Epilogue

The three authors reviewed five proposed explanations for life’s origins and suggested that the best explanation was that the first life originated through an act of creative intelligence. Read More ›
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Cosmos Episode 6 — That’s Entertainment! (But Is It Science?)

Here is the problem with speculative thinking about extraterrestrial life as well as about the origin of life. Read More ›
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Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›
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Finally, an Origin-of-Life Scientist Debates Skeptic James Tour

When Tour gets done, the narrative we all learned in high school biology class is in shreds on the floor. Read More ›
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What Scientists Fear: Foreword to The Mystery of Life’s Origin

Perhaps scientists fear that acceptance of this conclusion would open the door to the possibility (or the necessity) of a supernatural origin of life. Read More ›
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Listen: Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism

One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. Read More ›
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The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›
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The Passing of Jon Buell

That Jon was able to get The Mystery of Life’s Origin to see the light of day was a miracle. Read More ›
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Purpose and Hope in a Time of Turmoil

During a recent staff meeting, two Discovery Institute staff members referenced essays by C.S. Lewis, including “On Living in the Atomic Age.” Read More ›

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