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Photo: James Tour, via YouTube (screenshot).

James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin to Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory

After Tour publicly quoted Cronin’s assessment of the field, Cronin responded by claiming he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek.” Read More ›
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Image: Statue of Atlas, Rockefeller Center, NYC; photograph by Michael Greene; sculpture by Lee Lawrie; public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency." Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Debate Review: Jim Tour vs Lee Cronin at Harvard

In 2021, chemist Dr. Lee Cronin declared publicly that “Origin of life research is a scam.” He later said he was only joking. Read More ›
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Photo: Lee Cronin, via YouTube (screenshot).

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›
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Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Read More ›
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Meyer’s God Hypothesis — A “Truly Superb Analysis”

The latest distinguished scientist to endorse Stephen Meyer’s upcoming book is David Galloway at the University of Glasgow. Read More ›
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Photo: Thomas Reid, by Stephencdickson / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” 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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Darwin Devolves — Evidence Keeps Rolling In

The second paper is an in-depth look at genetic changes associated with the evolution of whales and dolphins. They found a lot of devolution. Read More ›
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Slam Dunk? Once Again, It’s the “Evolution Is a Theory” Thus “Overwhelmingly Supported” Fallacy

University of Glasgow chemist Paul Braterman explains “How to slam dunk creationists.” Read More ›

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