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From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths

Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Textbooks Still Misrepresent the Origin of Life 

After 2000, some textbooks were corrected, but in many cases the corrections were minor and the books continued to perpetuate the misrepresentations. Read More ›
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What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life

It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life. Read More ›
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Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

Many scientists and professors who are outside boutique origin-of- life circles have been led astray by researchers’ claims and the subsequent press. Read More ›
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Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

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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Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality

In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public. Read More ›
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On the Origin of Life, Why Listen to James Tour?

Tour is not one for mincing words: “The people who might disagree with me are biologists because they’ve never made anything.” Read More ›
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Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism 

Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science. Read More ›
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An Extraterrestrial Spin on the RNA World

The authors argue that RNA molecules appeared in warm little ponds more than 4.17 billion years ago, transported by “meteorites and interplanetary dust particles." Read More ›
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Warm Little Pond? PNAS Paper Admits Difficulties Generating RNA on Prebiotic Earth

“Warm little ponds,” in Darwin's quaint expression, are actually very hostile environments for generating nucleotides. Read More ›

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