The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

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Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Source
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Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

amino acids, biology, biopolymers, chirality, denaturation, DNA, Donna Blackmond, Evolution, formamide, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, Intelligent Design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, origin of life, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, toluene, wet/dry cycles, YouTube videos
Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.  Source
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Meyer, Isaac: Is Information in DNA “Abstract”?

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The American Scientific Affiliation is an association of Christian scientists who are not on the whole supportive of scientific arguments for intelligent design. Source
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Keating, England: Two Jewish Physicists on Faith, Intelligent Design, and More

Brian Keating, Brian Miller, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Into the Impossible, Jeremy England, Judaism, Moses, origin of life, Orthodox Jews, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, serpent, staff, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics
The last 48 minutes or so are the most compelling as England, an Orthodox rabbi, talks about the reason for his “tending to reject” arguments for ID. Source
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Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”

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This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth. Source
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Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers

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In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Source
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Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

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Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Source
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