Tag: Helen Hansma
Brian Miller: Star-Crossed RNA Strands and the Origin of Life
Dr. Miller explores more problems facing the idea that life began as strings of RNA.
Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design?
A reader must ask if an RNA molecule could possibly govern chemical reactions, suppress free-riders, support co-operators, and act in its own self-interest.
Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate
Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell.
Helen Hansma: Round Two on the Origin of Life
My interlocutor was Helen Hansma who pioneered the mica-sheet origin-of-life model.