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New Animated Video: Cell Membranes by Natural Processes Alone?

Cell membranes are essential for life because they actively maintain homeostasis, providing a consistent environment inside the cell. Read More ›
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Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.  Read More ›
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Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”

This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth. Read More ›
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Photo: Airgas delivers its products, by Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research

In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Read More ›
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Photo: Engulfed by a phagocyte, by Leena H. Bajrai, Samia Benamar, Esam I. Azhar, Catherine Robert, Anthony Levasseur, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola. Academic Editor: Eric O. Freed, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Read More ›
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James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Synthesis of the Building Blocks

"The analogy that comes to mind is a golfer, who having played a ball through an 18-hole course, assumed the ball could also play the course in his absence." Read More ›
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The Shadow of a Science Yet to Be Born

The paper by Tompa and Rose casts a shadow for us, and we need to trace its outline and derive the theory behind the shadow. Read More ›
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New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design

According to Halsmer, engineering involves “the creative use of resources and ingenuity to accomplish a purpose or solve a problem.” It does so by creating “affordances.” Read More ›
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Cell Membranes: Dynamic, Communicating, Designed

Simple bilayers of lipids? No! Cell membranes have come into their own as masterful players in numerous cellular functions. Read More ›
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The Origin of Life: Dangers of Taking Research Claims at Face Value

All simulations that purport to be breakthroughs in origins problems follow the same pattern. Read More ›

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