Tag: Eric Anderson
More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series
Brian Miller discusses the Levinthal paradox of the interactome, the long odds of blind processes assembling the first cell, and the challenge of cell death.
The Origin of Life Was an Engineering Marvel
Brian Miller and Eric Anderson discuss Jeremy England’s origin-of-life ideas and the RNA World hypothesis.
Information, Entropy, and the First Life
Physicist Eric Hedin talks about the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism.
Origin of Life: Brian Miller Distills a Debate Between Dave Farina and James Tour
No one — not even the most elite of origin-of-life scientists — has a clue how life could have arisen through blind natural forces on the early Earth.
Physicist Eric Hedin: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to an Unguided Origin of Life
Such an event would have involved a breathtaking increase in new information, and physics tells us clearly that mindless nature only degrades information.