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Cosmos and Life: Everything Points to a Paradigm Shift

Why would most people avoid drinking stagnant water from a puddle or a swamp? Probably not for fear of ingesting some dissolved salts or minerals. Read More ›
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Photo: Brian Miller, by Daniel Reeves.

Brian Miller: From Non-Life to Life via Natural Forces Alone? Nope

Steven Novella, a scientist committed to puncturing science hype, seems to have fallen for the hype surrounding this laboratory work. Read More ›
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James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Properly Combining Building Blocks

Any progress toward life would be lost if a fully functional cell did not emerge within a reasonably short period of time. Read More ›
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Image credit: Brian Gage.

RNA World: Repeated Downfalls, Repeated Resurrections

Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin-of-life research would be solved “very, very soon” hasn’t quite turned out right. 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 Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1

Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data. Read More ›
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With Gene Editing, Scientists Perilously Push Borders of Biotechnology

Such manipulations, if ever done in humans, could a profound impact on human society going down the generations. Read More ›
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How Biochemist Matti Leisola’s Lab Experience Persuaded Him of Intelligent Design

Leisola describes a humble example — the enzymes in washing powder we use in the laundry, with the ability to degrade proteins. Read More ›
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Animal Researchers Should Be Proud

We are often awed at the medical miracles that save so many of our lives and alleviate unquantifiable levels of human suffering. Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour, speaking at University of Waterloo, via YouTube.

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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