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The Mystery of Life’s Origin

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Photo (L to R): Stephen Meyer, Roger Olsen, Walter Bradley, and Charles Thaxton in 2020, by Chris Morgan.

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Photo: Walter Bradley at the launch of the Bradley Center, by Nathan Jacobson.

Walter Bradley and the Bradley Center

Unfortunately, rather than use AI to enhance our humanity, computational reductionists increasingly use it as a club to beat our humanity. Read More ›
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Ann and Walter Bradley at Baylor University in 2004, via Baylor University.

Remembering Walter Bradley: A Trailblazer in Intelligent Design with a Legacy to Inspire

It is with deep reverence that I learned of the passing of my hero. Walter was a man of extraordinary intellect, boundless compassion, and unwavering faith. Read More ›
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Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Fernanda Greppe on Unsplash.

The Extracellular Space: Where the Rest of Life Takes Place

"Zooming out from a single cell, the human body as a whole is made up of around thirty trillion cells." Read More ›
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Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Read More ›
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Image credit: Arek Socha via Pixabay.

Stephen Meyer: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Origin of Life

Have scientists made life in a laboratory? Two-thirds of the public think the answer is yes. Read More ›
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Image credit: Brian Gage.

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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Photo: Small Magellanic Cloud, by NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA).

Intelligent Design’s Founding Father

Emily Nordhagen Sandico describes the origins of Thaxton’s book, which had such an influence on Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Phillip Johnson, and others. Read More ›
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Photo: Charles Thaxton (center) with his co-authors, via Discovery Institute.

Still a Mystery: Charles Thaxton on Life’s Origin

It was the epilogue that proved controversial. There the three authors reviewed five proposed explanations for life’s origins. Read More ›

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