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Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do. Read More ›
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More Scientific Problems with Paul Rimmer’s Views on Origin of Life

Naturally occurring self-organization is fundamentally different from the order in living systems. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: Cambridge Astrochemist Paul Rimmer Analyzes the Tour-Farina Debate

The differing perspectives of Tour and Rimmer result from the differences in their starting assumptions. Read More ›
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Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics

In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models. Read More ›
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Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality

In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public. Read More ›
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A “False Narrative” on Origin of Life Research?

Protesting such a thing, not protesting against the people who protest against it, should be the norm, not the rare exception. Read More ›
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Origin-of-Life Researcher Admits, It’s “A Long, Long Way to LUCA”

Without intelligent design, how the "the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms" arose remains frustratingly elusive to theorists. Read More ›

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