Tag: Jack Szostak
Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus
The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid.
First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists
On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors.
Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers
I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do.
On Origin of Life, “Stated Clearly” Has Clearly Misled Viewers
Jon Perry may be a proponent of methodological naturalism, which constrains science to consider only natural causes, regardless of the scientific evidence.
Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem
As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map.