Origin of life

How the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii demonstrates multicellularity is a design feature.

We humans may think our self-awareness marks us out as special but atheists insist it’s merely an illusion brought about by our brain chemistry. Why, then, do cognitive scientists, psychologists and philosophers fail to explain consciousness?

What should we be aware of as we try to read the secular literature with a careful and critical eye?

Evolutionists have faith that a fish can evolve from water in a bathtub, given a billion years.

A naturalistic view of origins must explain the existence of coded information within living things arising from a ‘no mind’ process, but all of our scientific observations deny that possibility.

It wasn’t exactly a Shakespearean response that researchers got when they put a keyboard and computer screen in the local zoo’s monkey enclosure!

Did the hypothetical ‘first life’ need to be cellular?

A critique of current scientific models

Canned sardines contain a wealth of ingredients essential for life, but life will not arise in those sardines.

Are they incubators of life or just similar to the dead planets in our solar system?

Have scientists really found nucleobases from outer space? Does this prove that life started ‘out there’?

Leading media physicist Paul Davies is puzzled. He realizes that ‘stupid atoms’ can’t generate the information required for living things. But he is unwilling to accept creation, so he tries to use quantum mechanics as a way out.

Cairns-Smith: detailed criticisms of the RNA world hypothesis

Can the endosymbiosis theory explain the origin of eukaryotic cells?