Tag: natural processes
Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias
Future scientists are taught to interpret the world through a rigid conceptual grid.
Long Story Short — A Strikingly Unnatural Property of Biopolymers
Scientists have been trying for decades to get monomers to link up into biopolymers under “prebiotically plausible conditions.”
Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?
Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.
The First “Simple” Self-Replicator?
Let’s imagine trying to design something as “simple” as a self-replicating cardboard box.
Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”
This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.