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First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System ­— A Conundrum for Materialists

On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›
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Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›

James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry

A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want. Read More ›
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At BioLogos, Still Critiquing the Book Steve Meyer Didn’t Write

From occasionally perusing the BioLogos website, I've come to realize that talk about holiness and humility and love often accompanies some kind of innuendo or slur. Read More ›

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