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What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories? 

The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›
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Postcard from São Paulo: Design Evidence from High School Chemistry

Kristin Marais spoke about “How to Make Chemistry Fun by Teaching Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life.” Read More ›
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Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›
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Video: Life Can’t Exist Without Repair Mechanisms, and That’s a Problem for Origin-of-Life Theories

Following the replication of DNA, a daily barrage of DNA damage occurs during normal operating conditions. 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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Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

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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Origin of Life: Top Three Problems with Protocells

Protocells place origin-of-life researchers in an awkward position: relying upon an imaginary entity to sustain their belief that only matter and energy exist. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: The Problem of Cell Membranes

Wow, the new Long Story Short video is out now, and I think it’s the best one yet — it’s amazingly clear and quite funny. Read More ›
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Photo: Fossil of Opabinia regalis, a Cambrian animal, by Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›
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Zip It: How Cells Repair Leaking Membranes

Membrane repair would have been necessary for the existence of the first cell. By what miracles did it arise? Read More ›

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