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Long Story Short Detonates Propaganda About the Origin of Life

These popular origin-of-life videos subordinate science to ideology. Accurate science clearly contradicts their teaching. Read More ›
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Photo: Budding yeast, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Yeast Gives Evidence of “Genes-in-Waiting”

Professor Carvunis stressed that the genetic patterns she is studying do not fit with the evolutionary theory she learned “since I was an undergraduate.” Read More ›
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Jim Tour Unmasks Steve Benner’s Double Standard and Inaccurate Commentary on the Origin of Life

If Benner assessed his experiments by the same standard he applied to others, he would have acknowledged that his attempts have yielded nothing of value. Read More ›
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On the Origin of Life, James Tour Exposes the Irrelevance of Lee Cronin’s Research

Tour details Cronin’s consistent exaggeration of the progress he and other researchers have made in unraveling the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
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Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Read More ›
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James Tour Dismantles Dave Farina’s Expert Witnesses on the State of Origin-of-Life Research 

Farina is a committed atheist who has demonstrated that he is not encumbered by the same ethical standards that James Tour is. Read More ›
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Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

#3 Story of 2022: Did Researchers Explain the Origin of Life?

The research paper avers, “These results support the capability of molecular replicators to spontaneously develop complexity through Darwinian evolution.” Read More ›
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Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Much Ado About Lactase Persistence

Nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about brand new results. This week the topic was “lactase persistence.” Read More ›
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Photo: Basalt lava glass, by James St. John, via Flickr (cropped).

Origin of Life from Basalt Lava Glass? Sorry, No

An honest evaluation of the studies leads to the conclusion that the formation of RNA could not have occurred through any natural processes on the early earth. Read More ›

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