Interesting video and article about origins...
The video is James Tour explaining more about how science can't explain the chemical/abiotic origin of life naturalistically (supporting the alternative, the Bible's history, that God created life). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sP1E1Jd_Y

The article is a review of a book called "A fortunate universe", about the fine-tuning of the universe's constants. https://creation.com/a-fortunate-universe-review . It makes many excellent points and shows nice diagrams, and makes the good point that naturalistic "multiverse" explanations for the fine-tuning of the universe actually destroy scientific exploration entirely... Excerpt: "Realistically, multiverse thinking can have no place in science. Apart from being unobservable (and therefore untestable) it logically leads to the view that no data set should be regarded as evidence for anything. In a multiverse it could always occur by chance!"

DNA is code... Who wrote it?
These "#ScienceUprising" videos are very interesting.

https://scienceuprising.com/dna/

https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-1000-scientists-sign-dissent-from-darwinism-statement

Here are some recent reviews.  For more, see this link: http://tim223.xanga.com/category/book-reviews/

Spacecraft Earth, by Henry Richter and David Coppedge
This book summarizes information from many different domains of science, related to how Earth is optimized for life and how living creatures display optimal design. It discusses cosmology, including the Big Bang theory, multiverses, etc. It discusses biology, including the complexity of life and the difficulties with the commonly-accepted theories of evolution and abiogenesis. It discusses the evidence both for and against evolution. At the end, Dr. Richter shares his own life story, including his career of developing Explorer I (USA's first satellite) and how he became a Christian in his 40s.
The book has a perfect balance of concise information and readability, with a few stories and pictures thrown in too. It might be slightly too science-oriented for some, but it is perfect for anyone interested in science/engineering/tech/biology. It is great to read for learning more information, and great to give away to others.

God's Crime Scene, by J. Warner Wallace
Wallace, former detective, takes a "crime scene" approach to looking at the evidence for God's existence, such as the fine tuning of the universe and the existence of objective morality. The book is very easy to read, and has great clear lay explanations of the latest quantum physics arguments and how they relate to the debate (e.g. can things pop into existence spontaneously out of 'quantum vacuum'? Did Stephen Hawking's imaginary time remove the need for the universe to have a beginning?) He agrees with William Lane Craig's explanations. On the down side, he accepts a multi-billion-year-old universe and evolution, like Craig. Possibly useful (with caveats) for some people (e.g. atheists).

Escape from North Korea, by Melanie Kirkpatrick
This book tells about the underground railroad of people helping North Koreans escape their country. It is very well researched and documented, and very well written. It presents many facets of the issues and is very informative. It has many testimonials from North Korean refugees. It is a bit dated now, since it was published in 2012, but is still very worth reading.

Hope Heals, by Katherine and Jay Wolf
This is the true story of a couple who experienced a terrible medical tragedy, a brain stroke. They together (back and forth) write about their experience, and how God and their family/friends sustained them through it. It is powerful and beautiful - well worth reading.

Mideast Beast, by Joel Richardson
This book presents more of the Biblical side of the prophecies about the Antichrist and the end times. As presented in his old article "Will Islam be our future?" (http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/index.htm ), Richardson believes that the end-times government described in the Bible will be a Muslim government, a renewed Caliphate/Ottoman empire. This book answers objections that people have presented to his view (i.e. from people who believe in a renewed Roman empire as the end-times government) He presents many interesting and persuasive interpretations of the relevant Bible passages, including Daniel, Revelation, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Isaiah, etc. His conclusion is that we should love Muslims, by seeking to bring the gospel of Christ to them and show them the way out of the darkness of Islam.

The Great Omission, by Steve Saint
The main point of this book is that western missionaries should seek to help the people with whom they are ministering become self-sufficient in terms of financing, leadership (especially church leadership), missions-sending, and technological skills. Missionaries should 'work themselves out of a job' in a particular place, empowering the indigenous church and local community to become self-sufficient and sending out other missionaries. It presents excellent points, although it gets a little like a 'rant' occasionally. Worth reading.

Four interesting recent scientific articles:

1. A group of 33 scientists admit evolutionary theories cannot explain the origin of life on earth, and published a paper arguing that life must have been seeded on earth from outer space.
https://evolutionnews.org/2018/05/with-new-theory-of-the-cambrian-explosion-scientists-reach-literally-for-the-stars/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798
The scientists did not try to explain how life evolved in outer space.

2. A survey of mitochondrial DNA barcoding showed that most species on earth are all about the same age, less than 200,000 years (despite their ancestors supposedly being on earth for hundreds of millions of years)
"For the planet's 7.6 billion people, 500 million house sparrows, or 100,000 sandpipers, genetic diversity "is about the same... This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could" one author said.
"Another unexpected finding from the study—species have very clear genetic boundaries, and there's nothing much in between. 'If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies,' said Thaler. 'They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space.' The absence of "in-between" species is something that also perplexed Darwin, he said."
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-survey-reveals-facets-evolution.html
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Stoeckle-Thaler-Final-reduced.pdf
These results would be expected based on what the Bible says about the created 'kinds' of animals and the population bottleneck at Noah's flood. The 200,000 year statistical estimate is different than what the Bible says (~4300 years ago), but the paper's dating cited old evolutionary papers (pre-genome-project) and assumptions. With different starting assumptions, this data would fit well with the Bible.

3. A recent Nature paper ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04375-6 ) proposes wars as a hypothesis for the unexpected “abrupt population bottleneck” among human males’ Y-chromosome between 5000-7000 years ago (date inferred from statistical modeling). The bottleneck might also be explained in terms of Noah and Babel (with timescale adjustments using different starting assumptions)... https://creation.com/noah-and-genetics

4. A recent PNAS paper shows that radiocarbon dates from different parts of the world do not match each other.. https://crev.info/2018/05/radiocarbon-dating-not-globally-uniform/
Radiocarbon dates calibrated by tree-ring dating from Europe does not match dates from the Middle East... the results are off by several years up to several decades, in an unpredictable fluctuating manner.
As CREV's commentary article says,
"If radiocarbon has this previously-unknown factor that is significant enough to change interpretation of recent material, how much more could other dating methods (the ones that yield millions or billions of years) be off by significant factors that could undermine evolutionary beliefs? Scientists cannot go back millions of years to check their dates with a stopwatch. They rely on radioactive decay as a kind of stopwatch, but what if the stopwatch fluctuates due to “unknown unknown” factors? They calibrate their dates with evolutionary assumptions, but what if those assumptions are invalid?"

Here's a fun 4-minute video from an astronomer asking the question: what's the bigger leap of faith (regarding origins)? Believing in "the multiverse", or believing in God? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymajOjVQPm4

Since we don't observe matter/energy popping into existence out of nothing, and since the universe seems so "fine-tuned" for life (see https://privilegedplanet.com/ ), there must be some explanation.

Which one is more reasonable? Which has stronger evidence?

What's the connection between the age of the earth and the problem of Evil?

Great article: https://creation.com/age-of-the-earth-christian-apologists

Why do so many Americans not believe in evolution? Do they simply misunderstand it? This is a short, pithy, thoughtful, and fun book review. Check out the amazing interactive biochemical pathways map!

https://iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2018/01/24/creationists-understanding-evolution/

Here's a fascinating quote from a prominent evolutionist:

"...a growing number of challenges to the classical model of evolution have emerged over the past few years, such as from evolutionary developmental biology [16], epigenetics [17], physiology [18], genomics [19], ecology [20], plasticity research [21], population genetics [22], regulatory evolution [23], network approaches [14], novelty research [24], behavioural biology [12], microbiology [7] and systems biology [25], further supported by arguments from the cultural [26] and social sciences [27], as well as by philosophical treatments [28–31]. None of these contentions are unscientific, all rest firmly on evolutionary principles and all are backed by substantial empirical evidence."
- Dr. Gerd Müller
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/08/evolutionary-theorist-concedes-evolution-largely-avoids-biggest-questions-of-biological-origins/