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Big Bang
Image credit: Rick Bolin, via Flickr (cropped).

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology 

Hossenfelder concludes that “we are facing the limits of science itself.” And the question of the universe’s origin “we’ll never be able to answer.” Read More ›
RNA
Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Listen: Darwin Returns from the Future

Nickell John Romjue’s time-traveling Darwin returns to his family home and offers some final reflections on his eye-opening visit to the 21st century. Read More ›
plasma membrane
Photo: Plasma membrane, by Krishna satya 333, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The “Clumping” Problem and the Origin of Life

In the 1970s, biochemist Sidney Fox and colleagues believed they had uncovered primitive cell membrane-like structures called protenoid microspheres. Read More ›
surgery
Photo credit: Piron Guillaume, via Unsplash.

Dr. Michael Egnor: “Operating on Healthy Bodies Defies Surgical Ethics”

"A well-performed operation is still malpractice (or even assault) if it is not done for valid medical reasons." Read More ›
Cartwheel Galaxy
Photo: Cartwheel Galaxy, by James Webb Space Telescope, via NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Meyer: Webb Telescope Confirms a Cosmic Beginning

The philosophical stakes were just too enormous. Materialism could not accept so massive a confirmation of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning…” Read More ›
Darwinius
Photo: Darwinius marsillae, Franzen et al. 2009, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›
Science Uprising
Image source: Discovery Institute.

New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference

Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty. Read More ›
hydrothermal vents
Photo: Hydrothermal vents, by NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Michael Behe Answers More Reasonable Objections to Intelligent Design

Behe and Pat Flynn tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. Read More ›

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