Tag: early Earth
Yale’s Steven Novella Falls for Origin-of-Life Hype
Novella is a prominent atheist who jumped at the chance to promote the secular creation narrative of life’s origin.
New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology
Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress.
Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality
There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth.
A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones
It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one.
Self-Replication? Not Even Close
Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.”