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The Unsolved Mystery of Life’s Origin: Stephen Meyer and James Tour

How did life originate? For decades, many scientists clung to “primordial soup” models. Read More ›
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Photo (L to R): Stephen Meyer, Roger Olsen, Walter Bradley, and Charles Thaxton in 2020, by Chris Morgan.

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Dark Proteome Information Content Skyrockets

There could be a five-fold increase in the number of proteins coded in what was formerly called non-protein-coding DNA. Read More ›
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From Professor Dave, This Sounds Like Incitement to Violence

If you're enjoying the certainty that you've triumphed in a debate, you don't then, even in a weird "just kidding" way, post fantasies about murder. Read More ›
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Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning

Michael Behe described how he attended a conference to hear Nobel laureate John Walker, the world’s expert on ATP synthase, explain how it might have evolved.  Read More ›
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A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers

In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.” Read More ›
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Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›
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Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment

Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds. Read More ›
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Frankenstein and His Offspring

"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›
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Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›

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