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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiologists, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Stewart-Williams, Viking mission, William Harvey}

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2021

Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology

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Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
August 17, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Brian Miller, building blocks, carbohydrates, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Change Laura Tan, experiments, heart disease, heart failure, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, nucleotides, Pier Luigi Luisi, prebiotic Earth, reagents, researchers, Stanley Miller, The Stairway to Life, YouTube videos}

New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research

_{Rob Stadler
August 17, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aeschylus, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, Hesiod, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, re-animation, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, chemists, Denis Lamoureux, DNA, Goldilocks, Harvard University, heat, hydrothermal vents, James Tour, Jeffrey Bada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John Sutherland, Lawrence Krauss, monomers, Nature (journal), nucleotides, Peter Ward, polymers, RNA, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, UV radiation, water}

Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models. Read More ›

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Author
James M. Tour

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, evolution, Internet, living cell, membranes, metabolic pathways, Miller-Urey experiment, molecular structure, molecules, Paris, perpetual motion machine, professors, researchers, scientists, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

_{James M. Tour
March 26, 2020

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Many scientists and professors who are outside boutique origin-of- life circles have been led astray by researchers’ claims and the subsequent press. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, chemicals, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, neo-Darwinian theory, nucleic acids, origins, prebiotic evolution, proteins, Roger Olsen, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

_{Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger E. Olsen
March 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›

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Author
Dean H. Kenyon

Date
March 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Biochemical Predestination, biopolymers, Dean H. Kenyon, genetic information, isomer, living systems, polynucleotides, polypeptides, proteins, protocells, San Francisco State University, scientists, second of law thermodynamics, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

What Scientists Fear: Foreword to The Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Dean H. Kenyon
March 23, 2020

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Perhaps scientists fear that acceptance of this conclusion would open the door to the possibility (or the necessity) of a supernatural origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 26, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, amino acids, Charles Thaxton, Discovery Institute, Harold Urey, Inference (journal), James Tour, laboratory, materialism, molecules, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Rice University, Science Uprising, scientists, Stanley Miller, They Mystery of Life's Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center}

Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community

_{David Klinghoffer
July 26, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Ann Gauger, biotechnology, chance, chemical evolution, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, enzymes, error catastrophe, evolution, Freeman Dyson, Gandalf, hydrothermal vents, John Maynard Smith, JPL, Leslie Orgel, Manfred Eigen, Mars, Michael Russell, NASA, natural selection, Nature (journal), Nobel laureates, nucleic acid, prebiotic Earth, RNA, Robert Shapiro, Signature in the Cell, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, William A. Dembski}

Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show

_{Science and Culture
March 19, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.” Read More ›

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Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Finland, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, methodological materialism, Stanley Miller, Stonehenge}

Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps

_{Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt
February 8, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge. Read More ›