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Playing God

Published on March 7, 2021 By sirrahc

The following excerpt follows closely after my “Creating Life in the Lab” post, as it comes from the epilogue to Fuz Rana’s Creating Life in the Lab book. This time, Dr. Rana examines what it means to “play God” and whether or not Christians should worry about scientists’ research in synthetic biology and origin-of-life scenarios […]

Creating Life in the Lab

Published on February 21, 2021 By sirrahc

This month marks 10 years since Fuz Rana’s book, Creating Life in the Lab (2011) was published. I have owned a copy for awhile, of course, but it finally made it to the top of my Read List late last year. It was a little different than I expected, yet I’m not quite sure what […]

The Miller-Urey Experiment Is Irrelevant

Published on July 24, 2016 By sirrahc

“We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.”  — Robert Shapiro, OOL researcher and gadfly to naturalist orthodoxy, Origins: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth (1987) You may have expected a […]