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Photo: Asteroid Ryugu, by Stuart Rankin, via Flickr (cropped).

Uracil Discovered on Asteroid Ryugu — What Does It Mean for the Origin of Life?

These Ryugu samples appear to be our first chance to examine which organic compounds may be produced in a prebiotic setting in our solar system. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dreamy Pixel, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A New Look at Natural Selection

If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations. Read More ›
Ide Trotter
Photo: Ide Trotter, PhD, Princeton-trained chemical engineer and Darwin skeptic, delivers testimony before the Texas State Board of Education.

In Appreciation of Ide Trotter

A memory stands out. It was the evening he was honored by family, friends, ID scholars Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, and Walter Bradley along with James Tour. Read More ›
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Image credit: Arek Socha via Pixabay.

James Tour on Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

Tour doesn’t argue researchers will never be able to design a cell from non-living matter. He does say that if it is achieved, it will be well into the future. Read More ›
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Photo: Skull of "Mrs. Ples," by José Braga; Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Casey Luskin Debunks a Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

Luskin and host Eric Anderson call evolutionary theory to task for being overly supple, offering just-so stories to explain a behavior AND its opposite. Read More ›
Steve Benner
Photo: Steve Benner, via Dr. James Tour/YouTube (screenshot).

Jim Tour Unmasks Steve Benner’s Double Standard and Inaccurate Commentary on the Origin of Life

If Benner assessed his experiments by the same standard he applied to others, he would have acknowledged that his attempts have yielded nothing of value. Read More ›
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Image source: Dr. James Tour/YouTube (screenshot).

On the Origin of Life, James Tour Exposes the Irrelevance of Lee Cronin’s Research

Tour details Cronin’s consistent exaggeration of the progress he and other researchers have made in unraveling the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
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Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book from South Africa Explores Evidence of Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin earned his PhD in South Africa and had many opportunities to study various hominid fossils. Read More ›
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Livestream the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

Our 2023 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, this coming Friday and Saturday, is quite different from past years. Read More ›
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Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.

New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues

We’ll feature excerpts here in the future, but for now I’d like to highlight some special features of chapters in the book. Read More ›

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