Tag: early Earth
Fact Check: A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?
The lauding of Gerald Joyce’s research is pure hype. His results only further demonstrate the absolute necessity of intelligent agency.
The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain.
Is Epicurus Smiling?
Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated.
Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?
Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case.
Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable.