Category: Origin of Life
Brian Miller: Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Theories
Is origin of life research going round in circles, like the proverbial snake in pursuit of its own tail?
Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge
Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes?
Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer
Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important?
Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?
Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too.
Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code
This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA).