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Meyer, Turek: Questions and Answers about the God Hypothesis

Frank Turek has some very thoughtful young viewers. Follow the questions from about 40 minutes on. Read More ›
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Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

Some evolutionists are becoming bolder in their assertions that information can arise from stochastic processes without intelligence. Read More ›
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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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New Article Purports to Help Explain the Origin of the Genetic Code

Without all of the described investigator interventions, a system of replicating RNAs could never emerge or even sustain itself. Read More ›
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Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Read More ›
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Great Expectations: Origins in Science Education

How ironic then that a majority of college-educated adults have been led so far astray in their understanding of the sobering realities of abiogenesis research. Read More ›
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RNA World in a World of Hurt

Cornelius Hunter and Eric Anderson spotlight admissions in scientific publications that it’s time to move on from the cherished but embattled RNA World. Read More ›
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RNA World: Repeated Downfalls, Repeated Resurrections

Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin-of-life research would be solved “very, very soon” hasn’t quite turned out right. Read More ›
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Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design?

A reader must ask if an RNA molecule could possibly govern chemical reactions, suppress free-riders, support co-operators, and act in its own self-interest. Read More ›
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Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Read More ›

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