27Jul 2024 by Post

Responding to Lee Cronin: A Modular Theory of Assembly

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Despite its fatal defects, Assembly Theory does raise the prospect of what a successful theory of assembly might look like. Source
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01Feb 2024 by Post

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

Anthony Costello, Arizona State University, biologists, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Chemistry, creative agency, debates, demigod, Evolution, Harvard University, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Kirkwood Center, Lee Cronin, Lenny Esposito, materialist science, mind-first view, natural selection, origin of life, Owen Anderson, Rice University, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Meyer, University of Glasgow
Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency." Source
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30Jan 2024 by Post

Debate Review: Jim Tour vs Lee Cronin at Harvard

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In 2021, chemist Dr. Lee Cronin declared publicly that “Origin of life research is a scam.” He later said he was only joking. Source
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12Jan 2024 by Post

Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave

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The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Source
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23Nov 2023 by Post

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

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One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Source
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23Oct 2023 by Post

Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

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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. Source
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25Aug 2023 by Post

Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

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Of the ten, Lee Cronin at least is quite active on Twitter or X. I’m going to tweet this to him right now. You should too! Source
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