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water
Photo: Rain on holiday traffic, Seattle, WA, by Wonderlane, via Flickr.

Rainy Holiday Weekend? Don’t Let It Get You Down — Appreciate the Wonder of Water

How is water the “universal solvent”? What is viscosity? How does water keep temperatures stable? Read More ›
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Water — A Grand Story of Intelligent Design, Told by Michael Denton

Its unique properties allow it to fill many roles throughout the biological world, from forming the matrix of our cells, to regulating the temperature of our planet. Read More ›
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Michael Denton

At Bridalveil Fall — Michael Denton on the Wonder of Water

Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. Read More ›
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Anomalous Aspects of Common Water

The subject of Michael Denton’s new book — water — is ubiquitous, as indeed for living creatures it must be. Read More ›
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Jeremy England
Image: James Tour, via University of Waterloo/YouTube.

On Origin of Life, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Delivers Chastisement to Jeremy England

“[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.” Oh, really, does it? 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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Organosilicon-based life as envisioned by artist, Lei Chen and Yan Liang
Image credit: Organosilicon-based life as envisioned by artist, Lei Chen and Yan Liang (BeautyOfScience.com) via Caltech.

Silicon-Based Life: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

No living cell we know of produces carbon-silicon bonds, but scientists "evolved" a way to make cells produce them. Read More ›

Leap Before You Look: Reflections on the Mission and “Evolution” of Discovery Institute

I helped form Discovery Institute 25 years ago and over that period, if I may use the term, it has evolved. Read More ›

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