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Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin

Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions. Read More ›
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New Article Purports to Help Explain the Origin of the Genetic Code

Without all of the described investigator interventions, a system of replicating RNAs could never emerge or even sustain itself. Read More ›
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Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Read More ›
Cambrian animal phyla
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The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
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Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer Review 500 Years of Science History

They trace the rise, fall, and rise again of a paradigm Meyer refers to as “the God hypothesis.” Read More ›
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Meyer, Robinson: Yes, Reason and Materialism CAN Be Separated

The great question behind Steve Meyer's new book is whether world-views can be objectively tested. Read More ›
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Brian Keating: Getting Nervous About “Follow the Science”

These are EXCELLENT. I would say the themes of all three have to do with the importance of not worshipping scientists or imagining that science is infallible. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design May Speak to Young People’s Spiritual Interests

The rapidly changing religious demographics of American society constitutes an undoubtedly complex sociological issue that will resist easy explanation. Read More ›

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