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The Mystery of Life’s Origin

Stephen Meyer

Stephen Meyer and James Tour: Tonight, a Wide-Ranging and Personal Conversation

Does life's origin reflect the activity of a mind, or do blind, purely physical processes alone serve as a fully satisfactory explanation? Read More ›
Meyer on Metaxas Show 2

Stephen Meyer, Eric Metaxas: Gain and Loss and the Origin of Life

On his radio show today, Eric Metaxas talked with philospher of science Stephen Meyer about the reissue of an expanded version of the Ur-text of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Courage, Courtesy, and the Origin of Life — Congratulations to Physicist Jeremy England

As Yale’s David Gelernter has said of Darwinism, to challenge it is to “take your life in your hands.” Read More ›
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Inference Article Demonstrates Implausibility of Natural Processes for Explaining the Origin of Life

The piece is highly technical and mathematical, but the basic argument can be quickly summarized with only a marginal loss of technical accuracy.   Read More ›
Sherlock Holmes
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Frederick Dorr Steele (1873-1944), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact”

We are not saying DNA is like a message. Rather, DNA is a message. Read More ›
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Photo: (l. to r.) Roger Olsen with co-authors Charles Thaxton and Walter Bradley signing books at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Roger Olsen: The Mystery of Life’s Origin on the Early Earth

As an environmental scientist, Dr. Olsen has spent his career helping homes and families abroad protect children from the ravages of environmental pollution. Read More ›
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Photo credit: A spark from two electrodes simulated lightning, shown above, by Griffinstorm / CC BY-SA.

Textbooks Still Misrepresent the Origin of Life 

After 2000, some textbooks were corrected, but in many cases the corrections were minor and the books continued to perpetuate the misrepresentations. Read More ›
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astrobiology
Photo: Meteorite ALH84001 from Mars, by TK.

What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life

It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life. Read More ›
Stanley-Miller
Photo: Stanley Miller of Miller-Urey fame, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

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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Image: Heart of the Milky Way, by X-Ray:NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang et al.; Radio:NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT.

Metaphysical Tolerance: A Discipline for Progress 

The quest for truth has never been easy, and has on more than a few occasions been known to make one unpopular. Read More ›

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