Tag: amino acids
On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff
Tour issued his challenge in reply to the false claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed.
I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone
Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there?
Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces
There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically.
On Origin of Life, Stephen Meyer and James Tour Debunk Researcher Lee Cronin’s Claims
Have prebiotic chemists made any progress on the sequence specificity problem? None whatsoever, says Dr. Tour.
Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma
Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate.