Tag: chirality
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.
Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”
Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature.
Same-Handed Molecules Are an “Overarching Design Principle” in Life, Say Researchers
Without foresight to solve heterochiral incidents, a primordial cell would quickly perish even if, against all odds, it began homochiral.
Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?
Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.
James Tour, Episode 4: On the Origin of Life, “The Devil Is in the Details”
“Dr. Tour teaches the concepts of enantiomers and chirality, exposing challenges in the prebiotic synthesis and resolution of the molecules needed for life.”