Tag: origin of life
Hands-On Chemistry Can’t Simulate Prebiotic Earth
Says Dr. Meyer, “Even the modest movement they get towards life seems to be intelligently designed at each step of the way.”
Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence
The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules.
John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”
“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began.”
Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.”
Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces
There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically.