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Photo: Venus, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

New Analysis Casts Doubt on Claims for Life on Venus

The newer study agrees that the composition of Venus’s atmosphere is unusual but not that it is evidence for life. Read More ›
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Bioethicists: Insects Are People, Too!

We have even seen one professor declare the supposed personhood of peas. Now, it is insects’ turn at being anthropomorphized. Read More ›
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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life

Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life. Read More ›
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Image: Jeremy England lectures in Stockholm, via YouTube.

Origin of Life: Jeremy England’s Search for a Natural Explanation

If I had written this book, I would have concluded with a final chapter that began with a verse from the book of Genesis. Read More ›
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“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

Whatever one thinks about government mandates relating to the coronavirus, Parker Crutchfield’s “solution” is worse than the problem. 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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Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: Two Conundrums for Strictly Materialist Views of Biology

“Nothing in nature will ever simultaneously go to both low entropy and high energy at the same time.” Read More ›
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Jay Richards: The Many Dilemmas of Materialism

When you go off to an elite college today, you’re expected to think about the most important questions as if it were true that only material things exist. Read More ›
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How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight

He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.” Read More ›

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