Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution

Jessica L. Tracy; Joshua Hart; Jason P. Martens

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017349

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Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution

Jessica L. Tracy ,

* E-mail: jltracy@psych.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Joshua Hart,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, New York, United States of America
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Jason P. Martens

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution

Jessica L. Tracy,
Joshua Hart,
Jason P. Martens

Published: March 30, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017349

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No self-sustaining, self-replicative system with genotype and phenotype function has ever been observed.

Posted by GenotypePhenotype on 25 May 2013 at 13:11 GMT

No self-replicative, self-sustaining system with genotype and phenotype function has ever been observed, despite hundreds of thousands of experiments. Your scientific observations do not support your conclusion.

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No self-sustaining, self-replicative system with genotype and phenotype function has ever been observed.

Posted by GenotypePhenotype on 25 May 2013 at 13:11 GMT