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• Stephen C. Meyer and Peter Atkins debate intelligent design

  
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  This dialog occurred in 2010 on the Unbelievable radio show. I made a rough transcript, so please see below for that. The MP3 file is here . (60 minutes) Details: The documentary film “Expelled” is presented by US Actor Ben Stein and makes the case that scientists who question Darwinian orthodoxy and support ...
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• Dawkins and De Grasse Tyson Have One of the Smartest Chats You’ve Ever Heard

  
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  Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and astrophysicist and host of NOVA, Neil De Grasse Tyson are two of science’s most eminent luminaries; powerhouses in their respective fields. And they’re even shared the odd friendly intellectual tiffle. Yet in this hour-long discussion where they converse on the beauty ...
  1 week ago

• Ice tubes in polar seas – “brinicles” or “sea stalactites” – provide clues to origin of life

  
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  Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice — sometimes called “sea stalactites” — that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth’s poles, scientists are reporting. Their article on these “brinicles” appears in ACS’ journal Langmuir. Bruno Escribano ...
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• Moore’s law and the origin of life: a study in demarcation

  
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  by Massimo Pigliucci My most recent post was about the worthiness of so-called “demarcation” problems, such as reflections on what distinguishes science from philosophy, the latter from theology, and the former from pseudoscience. My interest in this field has been rekindled because of a long time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Life Older Than the Earth?

  
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  This is a complicated way to say that life on Earth, as time goes on, will get more and more complex, and measurably so. Related Posts: Grey Goo, The Nanotechnological Terror On the Form and Value of Extraterrestrials – Part II The Drake Equation, Counting the Stars The Bélmez Faces, Supernatural or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientists Are Wrong About the Meaning of Life

  
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  There is no God, and from what we can tell nothing means anything to the universe. Still, that doesnt mean that your life is meaningless. Scientists today treat all behavior as things bumping into things and changing them. Here we expose popular scientific misconceptions about what information is and point toward a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Problem with Most “X” Chemical Steps – Origin of LIfe Scenarios

  
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  For those following my challenging biology ideas, please go to the main bio summary thread and read the latest comment entry at the end. Then you might also read my UV paper. Problem with OOL chemical scenarios   http://wp.me/p5S9X-eO  (bio summary) UV paper:   ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is life on Earth older than the Earth itself?

  
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  As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself. Here’s an interesting idea. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on an integrated ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hubble telescope successor may use dead stars to find live planets

  
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  Researchers from Harvard and Tel Aviv Universities published a paper arguing that the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could be used to look at supposedly "dead" star-systems, and they think that doing so could finally lead us to proof of life elsewhere in the universe.
  3 weeks ago

• Ice Tubes in Polar Seas "Brinicles" or "Sea Stalactites" Provide Clues to Origin of Life

  
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  Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice — sometimes called “sea stalactites” — that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earths poles. (Credit: Rob Robbins; image archived by EarthRef.org)Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with ...
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• Did the Early Oceans Contain Oxygen?

  
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• Andre asks an excellent question regarding DNA as a part of an in-cell irreducibly complex communication system

  
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  Newbie commenter Andre, in an exchange with Mr Matzke, asks some interesting questions concerning DNA. First, let us remind ourselves of what we are discussing, courtesy NIH: Fig I.0: DNA as a stored code exhibiting functionally specific complex digital information (HT: NIH) Next, Andre’s comment : DNA has ...
  3 weeks ago

• ID Foundations, 18 (video): Dr Stephen Meyer of Discovery Institute presents the case for Intelligent Design (with particular reference to OoL)

  
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  Here , HT WK : [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Take an hour and a half to learn what ID is about (yes, what it is really about [and cf. here at UD for correctives to common strawman distortions . . . ]), with particular focus on the origin of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Origin of life researchers figure out how to build bigger RNAs

  
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  A close up of the active site of a catalytic RNA. UCB Well probably never know exactly how life on Earth got its start. The conditions in which it began have long since been lost, and there are simply too many precursor molecules and potential environments that could have gotten the process ...
  4 weeks ago

• Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life

  
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  Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: origin of life
  4 weeks ago

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