by Brian Thomas, M.S. and Christine Dao*

Harvard Medical School scientists believe they are closer to creating life out of non-living matter—but there are good reasons to doubt it.

Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered what they believe to be evidence for the evolution of strong and healthy metabolic networks within cells. What they may have actually found, however, is yet more confirmation that living organisms were skillfully created.

On September 10, 2008, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator went into action, sending a beam of protons racing at nearly the speed of light in the first of many preliminary tests that researchers hope will provide insight into certain mysteries of the physical universe—including its origin.

After steadily declining for a decade, teen suicide spiked by 18 percent from 2003 to 2004, according to a recent study conducted at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.¹