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Hull Library
academic freedom
Photo credit: University of Chicago’s Hull Library, by Josh Evnin, via Flickr(cropped).

New Model Legislative Resolution on University Student Academic Freedom in Science

From otherwise very impassioned and articulate commentators, the silence on this subject is remarkable. Truly, it’s a scandal. Read More ›
Are we alone?
Fermi paradox
Image credit: An imagined alien “super-Earth,” by ESO/M. Kornmesser, via NASA.

Are We Alone in the Cosmos? Here’s a Real Paradox for You

The problem is, none of these people cite papers or other writing by researchers on intelligent design, like the work done by Douglas Axe on protein evolution probabilities. Read More ›
red sea ocotopus 2
Photo: Red Sea Octopus, by prilfish, via Flickr.

More on Alien Octopi: New Paper Admits Failure of Evolution to Explain Life

The complexity and sophistication of life cannot originate from non-biological matter under any scenario, over any expanse of space and time, however vast. Read More ›
Earth
Photo: "Earth as Viewed From 10,000 Miles," via NASA.

“The Ultimate Bootstrap”

Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter. Read More ›
Jeremy-England

Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective

I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too. Read More ›
clownfish
science
Photo: Clownfish and sea anenomes, by Jan Derk [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

On Origin of Life and More, Ideological Correctness Plagues Science

Ian O’Neill discusses origin-of-life research, and bizarrely restricts the explanations to “fluke” or “physics.” Read More ›
Max Delbrück
Aristotle
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DNA, Information, and Aristotle’s Nobel Prize

Max Delbrück (1906-1981) was a biophysicist and Nobel laureate who made seminal discoveries in the DNA-based replication of viruses. Read More ›
Long road to LUCA
origin
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Origin-of-Life Researcher Admits, It’s “A Long, Long Way to LUCA”

Without intelligent design, how the "the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms" arose remains frustratingly elusive to theorists. Read More ›
free lunch
free lunch
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Materialist Origin-of-Life Solutions All Depend on a “Free Lunch”

This from Nature Reviews Chemistry caught our eye – an unexpectedly candid admission of how far origin-of-life research is from shedding real light on its subject. Read More ›

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