Tag: origin of life
Joining the Conversation: Perspectives on the Discussion with James Shapiro
There is an important distinction to be made between the terms “natural” and “material.”
Intelligent Design at the Frontier of Astrobiology and Biophysics
Earlier this month, Nature looked ahead at “five experiments as hard as finding the Higgs.” Two of them have relevance to the debate between naturalistic evolution and intelligent design.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues that the Origin of Life Required “Purposeful Choices”
What is it that distinguishes life from non-living entities?
A Big Problem for Naturalistic Explanations of Life’s Origins: Zircon Shows Oxygen Present in the Early Earth
New studies show that oxygen was present in Earth’s atmosphere at or near its current levels 4.4 billion years ago.
Maligning Phil Johnson, with Lots of Rhetoric but Little Substance
Johnson has now come in for criticism from mathematician Jeffrey Shallit and biochemist Larry Moran.