Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders

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Fear of validating opposition to materialism diminishes the scholarship of some scientific publications. Their authors need to get a grip. Source
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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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Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

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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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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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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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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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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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