20Jan 2026 by Post

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Source
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20Nov 2025 by Post

At COSM, Sharing Information Is Key to Solving Tech Problems

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Information is key to innovation, and a familiar question intelligent design asks is “Where does information come from?”  Source
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03Nov 2025 by Post

A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

Advanced Science, amino acids, bases, BioEssays, biologists, Chemistry, chromosomes, DNA, domains, exons, gene transcripts, genetics, genome function, genome regulation, geometric code, geometry, Intelligent Design, introns, James Tour, Junk DNA, meteorite, non-B DNA, OSIRIS-REx, packing, packing domains, structural shape, topologically associating domains, Yahoo News
Did you get that? “Cake,” I believe, is supposed to mean life. So obviously on earth we have cake. Source
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16Jul 2025 by Post

New Article from James Tour Undermines a Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

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Proteins and RNA degrade at rates that render their spontaneous formation under natural, undirected conditions highly implausible. Source
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02Jun 2025 by Post

Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning 

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The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Source
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27Dec 2024 by Post

No. 6 Story of 2024: Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

"God of the gaps", astrobiology programs, coacervates, code, container, Evolution, George Washington Carver, Human Origins, hydrothermal vents, James Joule, James Simpson, James Tour, Joana Xavier, Johannes Kepler, metabolism, Michael Faraday, Nick Lane, Paul Nelson, Perry Marshall, Professor Dave, proteinoid microspheres, RNA world, Robert Boyle, spark-discharge tubes, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, target of selection
The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Source
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18Sep 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life

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Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Source
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05Aug 2024 by Post

“Beyond Evolution”: Where James Tour and Stephen Meyer Disagree

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When you plant an inert, seemingly dead thing — a seed — in the ground, and it grows to be a flower, what has just happened? Life has happened. But why? Source
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27Apr 2024 by Post

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent intervention, intervention, James Tour, medical engineers, origin of life, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Robert Stadler, Salk Institute, self-replicating RNA, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post
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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