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Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

Evolutionism is really more of a paradigm or methodology than a theory. For its supporters, the important thing is that it was due to natural causes. Read More ›
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Nature’s Missing Law of Information

Conservation of information is not just an idea or concept that sits blithely in a world of mathematical abstraction. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›
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The Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is — blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. Read More ›
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Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology

Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too? Read More ›
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Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin on Entropy and the Origin of Life

Physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds? Read More ›
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Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›
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Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Read More ›
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›

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