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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, early Earth, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Tour, metabolism, primordial soup}

Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

_{Paul Nelson
January 21, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abstraction, American Scientific Affiliation, Brian Miller, complex specified information, David Klinghoffer, evolution, fire, Francis Crick, genetic code, information, intelligence, intelligent design, James D. Watson, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"How can we determine whether a 10-digit number is a random number or a specified telephone number to call your mother?" Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abstraction, American Scientific Affiliation, Brian Miller, Christianity, DNA, English, Francis Crick, information, intelligent design, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Meyer, Isaac: Is Information in DNA “Abstract”?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The American Scientific Affiliation is an association of Christian scientists who are not on the whole supportive of scientific arguments for ID. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Center for Science and Culture, Francis Crick, Harvard University, intelligence, James Watson, New York Post, Nobel Prize, panspermia, Prometheus, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, UFOs}

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2021

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 25, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromosome, design triangulation, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, Nature (journal), topoisomerases}

A Beautifully Illustrated Open Access Review Article on DNA Topoisomerases

_{Paul Nelson
January 25, 2021

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Crick and Watson realized, very early on, that the winding double helix of DNA would cause all kinds of nasty tangles. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 25, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, aliens, Alpha Centauri, black swallowtail, Every Life Is on Fire, Francis Crick, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy England, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lego blocks, Naturalistic Parabola, nematodes, Niels Bohr, puzzles, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Science (journal), Thanksgiving, William Blake}

Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All

_{Paul Nelson
November 25, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
April 6, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, Charles Thaxton, DNA, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Watson, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Massachusetts, molecular biology, Mount Rushmore, murder, NASA, nucleic acids, philosophers, proteins, SETI, Sherlock Holmes, South Dakota, specified complexity, suicide, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

“Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact”

_{Charles Thaxton
April 6, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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We are not saying DNA is like a message. Rather, DNA is a message. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __cedited, axioms, chromosomes, DNA, Drosophila melanogaster, Francis Crick, fruit flies, junk DNA, Leslie Orgel, nucleus, organism, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, RNA, The Selfish Gene, transposable elements, W. Ford Doolittle, Y chromosome}

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg
April 3, 2020

Evolution, Genetics

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Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, biological information, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, chemicals, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, neo-Darwinian theory, nucleic acids, origins, proteins, Roger Olsen, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

_{Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger E. Olsen
March 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›