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Meyer: Time Is the Archenemy of an Unguided Origin of Life

A video claims to show how the unguided origin of life is easy to envision, involving random chemical “blobs” forming into a replicator, given enough time. Read More ›
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Single strand ribonucleic acid, RNA research and therapy
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Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Postcard from São Paulo: Design Evidence from High School Chemistry

Kristin Marais spoke about “How to Make Chemistry Fun by Teaching Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life.” Read More ›
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Dark Proteome Information Content Skyrockets

There could be a five-fold increase in the number of proteins coded in what was formerly called non-protein-coding DNA. Read More ›
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New Study Triggers Key Origin of Life Questions

The leap from non-life to life represents a huge jump in complexity and information, one that cannot be explained by reference to a stepwise, gradual process. Read More ›
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Metals and Life — A Balancing Act

The complementary interaction between metals and life provides yet another example of our existence relying upon multiple levels of design. Read More ›
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Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Read More ›
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Fact Check: A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?

The lauding of Gerald Joyce’s research is pure hype. His results only further demonstrate the absolute necessity of intelligent agency. Read More ›
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design

One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain. Read More ›
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Is Epicurus Smiling?

Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated. Read More ›

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