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Meyer and Tour Complete Four-Part Seminar on Origin of Life: Will Professor Dave Watch?

If Professor Dave watched to the end, he would have to confront the fact that he deceptively conscripted biochemist Bruce Lipshutz as an expert witness. Read More ›
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Hands-On Chemistry Can’t Simulate Prebiotic Earth

Says Dr. Meyer, “Even the modest movement they get towards life seems to be intelligently designed at each step of the way." Read More ›
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Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Read More ›
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Viruses, the Immune System, and Computer Systems

Virus detection in computer programs is primarily implemented using a signature-based technique. Read More ›
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Prominent Retraction Vindicates Stephen Meyer and Signature in the Cell

Criticism suggested that Nobel laureate Jack Szostak and others were fast closing in on a solution to the origin-of-life problem with the “principle of RNA self-replication." Read More ›
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Internet of Cells: The Next Revolution?

Cells are connected in surprising ways that molecular biologists are just now beginning to understand. Read More ›
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenges Darwinian Evolution

Over recent months, papers challenging key elements of Darwinian theory — the kind of papers which are supposed not to exist — have increasingly been slipping through the net and finding their way into the peer-reviewed literature. One such paper, “Is gene duplication a viable explanation for the origination of biological information and complexity?,” authored by Joseph Esfandier Hannon Bozorgmeh and published online last week in the journal, Complexity, challenges the standard gene duplication/divergence model regarding the origin of evolutionary novelty. The abstract reports, All life depends on the biological information encoded in DNA with which to synthesize and regulate various peptide sequences required by an organism’s cells. Hence, an evolutionary model accounting for the diversity of life needs to Read More ›

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