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Lee Cronin
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On Origin of Life, Stephen Meyer and James Tour Debunk Researcher Lee Cronin’s Claims

Have prebiotic chemists made any progress on the sequence specificity problem? None whatsoever, says Dr. Tour. Read More ›
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James Tour and Stephen Meyer Bring Clarity to Origin of Life Debate

“What is being simulated is the need for intelligent agency to move simple chemicals in a life-friendly direction,” says Meyer. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer, James Tour: The Origin-of-Life Hustle

Researchers perform experiments using specially purchased chemical ingredients and assure the credulous science media that this has something relevant to say. Read More ›
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Professor Dave Debates a Fellow Atheist

What a strange thing to say. To represent someone with his own words, while pointing out his failure to respond to substantive critiques, is “slander”? Read More ›
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›
MOLO RNA world
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Information and Life’s Origin — A Retrospective View

Unguided natural processes, according to the generalized Second Law, cannot systematically increase the information content of a closed system over time. Read More ›
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Meyer, Shermer, Callen: “Can Science Find God?”

A key moment is when host Bryan Callen asks the classic “Who designed the designer?” question. Read More ›
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Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details. Read More ›
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From Professor Dave, This Sounds Like Incitement to Violence

If you're enjoying the certainty that you've triumphed in a debate, you don't then, even in a weird "just kidding" way, post fantasies about murder. Read More ›
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James Tour Takes Professor Dave to School: Farina Won’t Answer Tour’s Reasonable Questions

Farina finally did write something on the blackboard: “Not Clueless.” This, needless to say, did not answer Tour’s request for a scientific explanation. Read More ›

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