Walter Bradley: The Origin Story of an Intelligent Design Classic

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Today, we bring you the second half of Robert J. Marks’s 2020 interview with Dr. Bradley. Source
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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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Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Source
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Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

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Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Source
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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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“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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Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum

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In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum. Source
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