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Boastful Origin-of-Life Claims Conceal Contradictions

November 14, 2017

The latest speculations about life’s origins always overlook the most essential component: the origin of biological information. Suggestive catch-phrases are no substitute for demonstration. Evolutionary scientists employ stock phrases like “missing link” and “RNA world” and “prebiotic soup” that conceal, rather than illuminate, the actual chemical problems getting from molecules to life. The so-called “building […]

SETI

SETI: The Darwin Connection

November 10, 2017

Secular materialists looking for space aliens have a philosophical kinship with Darwinists.

Solar System

Enceladus Cannot Spout for Billions of Years

November 7, 2017

You can tell when theorists are getting desperate. Their assumptions get more and more implausible, and they gloss over falsifying facts.

Dinosaurs

The Flying Giraffe and Other Fossil Stories of Extinct Reptiles

November 4, 2017

Imagine a giraffe leaping into the air and flying off. That's what this giant pterosaur was like. Other interpretations about extinct reptiles are not so certain.

Astronomy

Giant Planet Sends Planetologists Scrambling

November 3, 2017

Secular astronomers are experts in telling the public about things that are observed but should not exist.

Darwin and Evolution

Excusing Darwinism’s Lack of Evidence

November 2, 2017

Several recent papers either rationalize evolution's failures, or else agree that the theory needs revision.

SETI

Evolutionists Offer Trick or Treat to Space Aliens

October 30, 2017

True believers in space evolution have gone totally spooky.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwinians Claim to See Evolution Happening Now

October 28, 2017

Unable to see evolutionary progress in the fossil record, some Darwinians try to claim they are watching it before our eyes.

Dinosaurs

Selective Extinctions Defy Logic

October 26, 2017

To believe the standard evolutionary timeline, you have to accept some highly unreasonable notions.

Darwin and Evolution

Lazy Darwinists Abuse Science

October 17, 2017

The Darwin storytelling empire has become fat and lazy, abandoning the hard work of empiricism for tantalizing speculations.

Solar System

Ring Around the Dwarf Planet Says ‘I’m Young’

October 13, 2017

You can't declare something old just because your worldview requires it to be old.

Origin of Life

Cell Repair Requirement Demolishes Origin-of-Life Speculation

October 12, 2017

A biology professor who came out of a Darwinian communist country explodes origin-of-life speculation with real world facts about genetic repair mechanisms.

Philosophy of Science

Science Fail: Shaky Assumptions Topple Long-Held Notions

October 3, 2017

Science is supposed to be self-correcting, we're told. But when towers of belief are built on assumptions later shown to be false, the consequences can be monumental.