Tag: laboratory
James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Properly Combining Building Blocks
Any progress toward life would be lost if a fully functional cell did not emerge within a reasonably short period of time.
RNA World: Repeated Downfalls, Repeated Resurrections
Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin-of-life research would be solved “very, very soon” hasn’t quite turned out right.
Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community
The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself.
Science Uprising — Not Confined to a Science Lab
We may think that we’re untouched by trends in thinking that go on far away. In a science lab or a science classroom, for instance. But that’s wrong.
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1
Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data.