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The Mystery of Life’s Origin

Meyer Thaxton
Photo: Stephen Meyer and Charles Thaxton, by Chris Morgan.

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan, by NASA/Cosmos Studies.

Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›
DNA
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NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism. Read More ›
chemistry flasks
Photo: Chemistry flasks, by David Mulder via Flickr (cropped).

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.

Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates his Faith-Based Approach to Science  

Members of the evolutionary community believe that philosophical commitments supersede evidence and reason. Read More ›
DNA
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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias

Future scientists are taught to interpret the world through a rigid conceptual grid. Read More ›
DNA
intelligent design
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Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds

"How can we determine whether a 10-digit number is a random number or a specified telephone number to call your mother?" Read More ›
MOLO RNA world
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Meyer, Isaac: Is Information in DNA “Abstract”?

The American Scientific Affiliation is an association of Christian scientists who are not on the whole supportive of scientific arguments for ID. Read More ›
James Tour
origin of life
Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

James Tour, Episode 4: On the Origin of Life, “The Devil Is in the Details”

"Dr. Tour teaches the concepts of enantiomers and chirality, exposing challenges in the prebiotic synthesis and resolution of the molecules needed for life." Read More ›
James Tour
Photo: James Tour, in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Episode 3: James Tour Detonates “Hyperbole Surrounding Origin-of-Life Claims”

As a correspondent quips, “I don’t know who Dave Farina is, but he’s kicked the wrong dog.” Indeed so. Read More ›

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