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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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Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments

They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek. Read More ›
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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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New Episode of “Long Story” Tackles the Origin of Life — Live Premiere on August 17

According to a bedtime story popular with materialists, unguided forces alone can explain the coming into existence of the very first cell. Read More ›
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“Blind Evolution… Explained Everything”

COVID-19 isn’t our only pandemic. There is also a pandemic of loneliness and despair. Read More ›
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Meyer: For the Scientific God Hypothesis, Next Year Will Be Pivotal

Conceding that churches and synagogues aren’t “essential businesses” was a devastating admission for many professional religious leaders to make. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Evolution Is Here!

As animator “Long Story” puts it in his video, the claim is an example of evolutionary equivocation”: “The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth.” Read More ›
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“Long Story Shot” on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance

Doubting Darwinian theory, we're told, is nothing less than a threat to the public health. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance — Premiere and Live Chat, November 12

“But what about bacterial antibiotic resistance!” This is one of the stock attempts to rebut arguments against the creative potential of unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›

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