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Another Claim by Origin-of-Life Researchers Dissolves on Inspection

This experiment, like all previous ones, reinforces the view that life was the product of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Unraveling the Myth that Undesigned Processes Generate Novel Functions

In short, the sequences performed no new function, so no new information was created. Read More ›
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Image: Human immunodeficiency virus 1, identified by Bapteste and his co-authors as a possible age-distorter, by C. Goldsmith. Content Providers: CDC/ C. Goldsmith, P. Feorino, E. L. Palmer, W. R. McManus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Examining Sources of Genetic Change

Eric Bapteste, a researcher at Sorbonne University, just co-authored a review discussing genetic change in the context of aging. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dariusz Bartosik, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin

Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions. Read More ›
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Excerpt: Letter to the Journal of Chemical Education

Unlike philosophy journals — or high school newspapers — many science journals are unwilling to publish responses by people attacked in their pages. Read More ›
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More Hints of Order in the Genome

Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma and junk DNA. If you expect to find reasons for things, you often do find them. Read More ›

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