Brian Miller reviews a new book out, Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origin of Living Things and says that when it comes to origin of life research it is “one of the most insightful works on the subject that I have ever encountered” and that it “should be required reading for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the physical principles constraining life’s origin.”

“Unlike many philosophy journals — or high school student newspapers for that matter — many science journals are remarkably unwilling to publish responses by people whose work has been attacked in their pages. You’d think a bit of controversy would be good for the ol’ journal circulation, but I guess not. The following literary effort never saw the light of day.” ~Michael Behe

There’s no better tribute to the power of ideas than a changed mind. Erik Strandness is a physician in Spokane, WA, practicing neonatal medicine. It’s hard to dispute the experience of practicing physicians who, unlike evolutionary biologists, are tasked every day with keeping a designed object — the human body — going strong.

I agree that design in nature is an effective challenge to materialism. But I also believe that the mind refutes materialism in a rather straightforward way—and in much the same way that evidence of intelligent design in biology refutes materialism.

First they came from the Darwin skeptics and the ID proponents. Hardly a voice was raised in protest for our freedom. And now here we are. Where will it end?