Tag: origin of life
Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments
They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek.
New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around.
Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond
Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made.
Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step
The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel.
Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?
Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone.