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Meyer: “Can Natural Selection Explain the Origin of Life?”

So there’s this absented-minded philosopher of science walking down the street, head in the clouds, not looking where he’s going. Read More ›
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Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Read More ›
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Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
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“Radical New Theory” on the Origin of Life?

Some recent work suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.” Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and James Tour: Tonight, a Wide-Ranging and Personal Conversation

Does life's origin reflect the activity of a mind, or do blind, purely physical processes alone serve as a fully satisfactory explanation? Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer on Physics and Cosmology: Online Course Opens New Frontier for Intelligent Design

In the course, Dr. Meyer covers what he calls the “three discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.” Read More ›
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Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

As the pioneering chemical evolutionary theorist Alexander Oparin put it, “The problem of the nature of life and the problem of its origin have become inseparable.” Read More ›
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Roger Olsen: The Mystery of Life’s Origin on the Early Earth

As an environmental scientist, Dr. Olsen has spent his career helping homes and families abroad protect children from the ravages of environmental pollution. 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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Marks, Bradley: “Magical” Circumstances Around the Publication of The Mystery of Life’s Origin

The book would go on to spark the beginning of the modern intelligent design movement. Read More ›

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