The Mystery of Life’s Origin and the “Intelligent Cause” Hypothesis It was this growing crisis that led Charles Thaxton (Fig. 9.9), Walter Bradley, and Roger Olsen to write The Mystery of Life’s Origin. In it, they not only critiqued then current evolutionary theories, but also proposed a radically new approach. In a philosophical epilogue, they proposed an “intelligent cause” as an explanation for the origin of genetic information necessary to produce life in the first place.37 They also argued that positing such a cause might constitute a completely legitimate and appropriate scientific
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