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On a new episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson sits down with mathematician Prof John Lennox, philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, and chemist Dr James Tour to examine what modern science suggests about the origin of the universe and life itself. Moving from the Big Bang and the...

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