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Origin Of Life

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Denyse O'Leary
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March 1, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, science education
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NASA stresses naturalist origin of life to kids

Denyse O'Leary
March 1, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, science education
Example: In response to a question re space aliens, "“The question presumes that aliens do exist. And again, because we haven’t found any yet, we don’t know if they do. It is possible they may exist, for one simple reason: we exist. Whatever made the likes of bacteria evolve into complex bodies with intelligent brains on Earth may have also occurred on another planet.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 22, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Renowned chemist James Tour’s episodes 1-3 on origin of life

Denyse O'Leary
February 22, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
David Klinghoffer: Tour got going with this 13-part series of lectures in response to a hapless critic, Dave Farina. As a correspondent quips, “I don’t know who Dave Farina is, but he’s kicked the wrong dog.” Indeed so. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 20, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Researchers: A form of Darwinism preceded and enabled the origin of life

Denyse O'Leary
February 20, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Those of us who are already skeptical of the immense role Darwinism is supposed to play after life already exists will find this prebiotic Darwinism hard to swallow. But reader Eric Anderson writes to assure us that that is in fact what origin of life researchers really do believe. Question: If it’s that simple, why isn’t life coming into existence from non-life all the time? As opposed to, say, never? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Video
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Chemist James Tour offers a YouTube series on abiogenesis, treated as a form of magic

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Video
"In this compelling series of lectures on abiogenesis, James Tour's riposte slices through both hype and myths using science to critique "science", demonstrating how experts in the field truly remain clueless on the origin of life." We recommend that inveterate yay-hoos find someone else to attack. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 9, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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At ScienceNews: “Fake” fossils more common than real ones

Denyse O'Leary
February 9, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
“Fake” here just means inanimate objects called bimorphs that form naturally and resemble microfossils. Doubtless, this will complicate searches for the earliest life, which is most likely evidenced as microfossils if it is evidenced at all. That is, of a given specimen, was it ever life? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 3, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Physics
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Avi Loeb suggests that the design of life might have been a black hole. Michael Egnor responds

Denyse O'Leary
February 3, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Physics
Michael Egnor: Both an intelligent designer (assuming we’re talking about God) and a black hole are supernatural, in the sense that they are not objects in the natural world. This may not surprise you about God, but it is also true of black holes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 21, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Peer review
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Why is Retraction Watch not what we hoped it would be?

Denyse O'Leary
January 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Peer review
Rob Sheldon: There was nothing either unethical or inaccurate in the paper. The conclusions were wrong. This is true of over 50% of papers in the literature. Further papers show why the conclusions were wrong. No one retracts a paper because the data was interpreted improperly. For example, Newton's conclusion that the universe was unstable. Einstein's conclusion that a cosmological constant could stabilize it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 1, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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The chemoton: Origin of life as a political issue?

Denyse O'Leary
January 1, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
At RealClearScience: "It [the chemoton] was announced to the world in Hungarian, at a time when Hungary was behind the Soviet Union's Iron Curtain. The chemoton would not reach English readers until 2003, when RNA world was firmly entrenched as the leading theory of life's origins." Read More ›