Tag: origin of life
Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step
The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel.
Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?
Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone.
New Episode of “Long Story” Tackles the Origin of Life — Live Premiere on August 17
According to a bedtime story popular with materialists, unguided forces alone can explain the coming into existence of the very first cell.
The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”
This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life.
Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis
Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts.