Metals: From Stars to Cells 

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Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Source
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Assuming Design, Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Understanding Circulatory System

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The authors also explain how the standard evolutionary framework misdirected earlier researchers. Source
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Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

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Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Source
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

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I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

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Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source
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The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

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One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source
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Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

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Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Source
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