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In Life, Not One Code but Many

It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code. Read More ›
Rosetta Stone
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Another Language Found in Life: Immune Signaling

The authors, scientists at UCLA, compare their finding to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. 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 ›
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Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)

Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Read More ›
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Proteome Is Analogous to Language

A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›
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Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and the Evolution of the Genetic Code

Dennis Venema's arguments about Michael Yarus’s work were already addressed in detail by Meyer and Nelson in a technical paper. Read More ›
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The Origin of Life: The Information Challenge

Today I will identify the fundamentally different approaches by ID advocates and critics toward assessing evidence. Read More ›
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Michael Shermer and the Laws of Complexity

Recently, atheist Michael Shermer debated Catholic philosopher Edward Feser. The subject was Feser’s new book on five arguments for the existence of God. Read More ›
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Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›

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