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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Tan and Stadler’s recent book tackles claims of life from the lab

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Royal Truman: "The hype which accompanied the publication in 2010 of what they dubbed Synthia overlooked how nothing of relevance to support evolution was accomplished. In a nutshell, the DNA sequence of a living bacterium was duplicated synthetically, and then transferred into a living cell. This would be comparable to copying a program from one computer to a different one, and then giving the impression the entire system, including hardware and operating system, could have originated on its own." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 11, 2021
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Origin of life theories discount the problem of degradation

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Stadler and Tan: Hundreds of millions of years of “deep time” is frequently cited as the saving feature for the profound improbability of each step of the Stairway [to Life]. Yet time is only an ally of a slow constructive process if degradation is ignored. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 4, 2020
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New origin of life book argues, even the simplest life forms are extraordinarily complex

Denyse O'Leary
April 4, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Rob Stadler: By studying the simplest forms of life and laboratory efforts to synthesize life, we know that the simplest living organisms are extraordinarily complex. Al life contains highly interdependent subsystems and hierarchical layers of information that flows between the subsystems. Read More ›