Tag: Chemistry
Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?
Biologist Michael Denton’s structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things.
Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology
The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible.
No. 4 Story of 2023: On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Called These Researchers’ Bluff
Dr. Tour issued his challenge in reply to the claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed.
Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories
Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends.
A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate
Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected?