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James Tour Focused on Science, Dave Farina on Character Assassination: So, Who Wins?

Professor Dave’s attacks undercut his credibility as a spokesman for his own view. If he had the truth on his side, there’s no reason he would behave this way. Read More ›
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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life

Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life. Read More ›
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Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate

Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell. Read More ›
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Photo: Mica, by Pascal Terjan from London, United Kingdom / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

Helen Hansma: Round Two on the Origin of Life

My interlocutor was Helen Hansma who pioneered the mica-sheet origin-of-life model. Read More ›
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Courage, Courtesy, and the Origin of Life — Congratulations to Physicist Jeremy England

As Yale’s David Gelernter has said of Darwinism, to challenge it is to “take your life in your hands.” Read More ›
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Inference Article Demonstrates Implausibility of Natural Processes for Explaining the Origin of Life

The piece is highly technical and mathematical, but the basic argument can be quickly summarized with only a marginal loss of technical accuracy.   Read More ›
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Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community

The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself. Read More ›
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A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions

Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree. Read More ›

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