What the Textbooks Leave Out About Miller and Urey
The 1953 experiment that made amino acids in a flask depended on an early atmosphere that scientists now think the earth never had.
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The Engine Cannot Build the Engine
Natural selection needs reproduction, heredity, and variation already in place. It cannot explain the origin of the very system it depends on.
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A Television Conversation About My Books With Logan Crawford
I sat down for a television interview with Emmy Award winning actor and director Logan Crawford. GBN will post it soon, and I will let you know when.
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The Very Ordinary Boy Who Became Charles Darwin
The legend begins with a prodigy. Darwin's own Autobiography begins with a father's exasperation and a self-described ordinary student.
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Meet the Darwin Behind the Museum Banners
One Darwin hangs on museum banners. The other wrote letters, notebooks, and an autobiography in his own hand. This series opens the primary sources.
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Why I Am Not Trying to Convince You
This page exists to examine ideas, mine included, not to win you over. Here are the hidden forces that shape what we believe, and a way to fight them.
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What Guided the Saw? Lucy on the Witness Stand
The famous Lucy pelvis was cut apart and rebuilt into the shape museums display. Here is what the rest of her bones say before the saw and the story arrive.
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Oxygen or No Oxygen: The Squeeze on the Origin of Life
Origin of life models are trapped between two atmospheres. With oxygen the chemistry dies. Without it, ultraviolet light does the killing.
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New Podcast: Human Babies Have Always Been Human Babies
The podcast episode Human Babies Have Always Been Human Babies is now available on Spotify, and I would love to hear your opinion about the topic.
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My New Book, Why I Decided to Believe in God, Is Out Today
Why I Decided to Believe in God is now available on Amazon, free on Kindle for a limited time. Here is what the book is about and why I wrote it.
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