Tag: origin of life
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.
Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue
A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors.
The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information
In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life.
Thermodynamics of the Origin of Life
Popular articles on origin-of-life research often portray the field as constantly advancing and quickly converging on a purely materialistic explanation for the first cell.
Humpty Dumpty and the Origin of Life — Paul Nelson at Texas A&M University, Thursday, March 30
Dr. Nelson will ask why a bacterial cell subjected to sterilizing sonication — or death by sound — will never come back to life. Ever.
Asking the Right Questions: My Visit to Brown University and MIT
On a trip to Northeast campuses, I had the privilege of speaking to students about the evidence for design in nature.
Life in the Fast Lane — Microfossils, 3.77 Billion Years Old, Pose Challenge to Materialist Presuppositions
That would mean there was life very, very early in Earth’s history — as Cyril Ponnamperuma said, it’s like “instant life.”
The Curious Romance of Darwinism and Creationism — And Why Intelligent Design Must Be Silenced
In his new book, Tom Bethell cites a telling lecture by origin-of-life researcher Nita Sahai.
#10 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Researcher Is Caught in a Wonderful Freudian Slip on Intelligent Design
Here is a video of a lecture, delivered last year at Case Western University, by University of Akron origin-of-life researcher Nita Sahai.
Researcher Almost Admits, then Quickly Retracts, that “Intelligent Design” Is Needed to Explore Origin of Life
Here is a video of a lecture, delivered last year at Case Western University, by University of Akron origin-of-life researcher Nita Sahai.