Tag: origin of life
Spot the Problems in This Story
On an alien planet, as astronaut discovers cars that conceive, gestate, and give birth to smaller cars.
On Origin of Life and More, Ideological Correctness Plagues Science
Ian O’Neill discusses origin-of-life research, and bizarrely restricts the explanations to “fluke” or “physics.”
On Origin of Life, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Delivers Chastisement to Jeremy England
“[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.” Oh, really, does it?
Hailed as the “Next Darwin,” MIT’s Jeremy England Sheds Little Light on Life’s Origins
England’s research is focused on the wrong question. Origin-of-life theories are not helped by identifying processes that efficiently dissipate energy.
Must Life Evolve?
In redefining life to make its origin easier to explain, origin-of-life researchers are now increasingly emphasizing the ability of life to evolve.
Origin-of-Life Researcher Admits, It’s “A Long, Long Way to LUCA”
Without intelligent design, how the “the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms” arose remains frustratingly elusive to theorists.
Materialist Origin-of-Life Solutions All Depend on a “Free Lunch”
This from Nature Reviews Chemistry caught our eye – an unexpectedly candid admission of how far origin-of-life research is from shedding real light on its subject.
Oracle Soup – Dialogue with a Theistic Evolutionist, Continued
We have no trouble rattling off any number of “conditions” that are relevant to the process of boiling alphabet soup.
Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths
A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy.
Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios
This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason.