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Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Read More ›
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Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Yarus, by Emily Krauter via University of Colorado, Boulder.

Adam and the Genome and the Evolution of the Genetic Code

Dennis Venema's arguments about Michael Yarus’s work were already addressed in detail by Meyer and Nelson in a technical paper. Read More ›
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The Origin of Life: The Information Challenge

Today I will identify the fundamentally different approaches by ID advocates and critics toward assessing evidence. Read More ›
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Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›

Methinks He Is Like a Dawkins: Prominent RNA World Researcher Michael Yarus Commits Famous “Weasel” Blunder

"To suggest how Darwinian evolution can surf across supposed oceans of improbability, I have set up a mutation-selection demonstration." Read More ›

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