Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

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Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source
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Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

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Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Source
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So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

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Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Source
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