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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Discovering Intelligent Design, information, intelligence, Jack Szostak, Long Story Short, machines, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, origin of information, proteins, replication, RNA, RNA world, Scientific American, specified information, Stanley Miller, transcription, translation, UC San Diego}

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain, brain activity, choices, consciousness, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, neuroscience, readiness potential, Scientific American, self}

New Brain Research Supports Free Will

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›

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Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Technology
Tagged
, bureaucracy, Elon Musk, John Horgan, NASA, Nature (journal), PubMed, Research, Rob Sheldon, Scientific American, The End of Science, Tibi Puiu, University of Minnesota}

Is the End of Science Near?

_{Science & Culture
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Science, Technology

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A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, assumptions, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmic inflation, empirical evidence, Energy, galaxies, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, planets, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, stars, universe, YouTube videos}

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

_{Brian Miller
November 7, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Canada, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Francis Crick, George Wald, habitability, materialists, microfossils, miracle, Nobel Prize, Quebec, Scientific American}

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 28, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, Eric Lerner, galaxies, Genesis, Georges Lemaître, God Hypothesis, infrared radiation, James Webb Space Telescope, materialism, media, photon, redshift, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, universe}

Meyer: Webb Telescope Confirms a Cosmic Beginning

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The philosophical stakes were just too enormous. Materialism could not accept so massive a confirmation of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning…” Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 22, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›

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Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, culture, David Papineau, free will, galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Michael Egnor, Milky Way, Robert J. Marks II, Scientific American}

Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?

_{Science & Culture
September 20, 2022

Astronomy, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Science

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There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
May 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, alt-right, Christianity, culture, Darwinian racism, eugenics, Evangelical Christianity, evolution, Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Racism, religion, Science, Scientific American, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism

_{Richard Weikart
May 10, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels. Read More ›