Tag: origin of life
Pumice and the Origin of Life
Pumice stone has other uses including the preparation of stonewashed denim. (You may find bits of it in the pockets of your newly purchased “distressed” jeans.)
In the Beginning: Watch Stephen Meyer on Hubble, Einstein
Meyer tells the story of Einstein’s visit to the Palomar Observatory and his realization that he must abandon his famous fudge factor, the cosmological constant.
A Reason to Doubt the Real, Rather than Pretended, Confidence of Darwin Advocates
If you follow the top Darwin blogs you’ll notice how eagerly and often they go in for mocking extremely marginal and daffy creationists. PZ Myers specializes in this. So too, in his books, does Richard Dawkins.
Privileged Planet: Dartmouth Physicist on the Surprising Fact of Complex Life, on Earth or Anywhere
This interestingly turns Steve Meyer’s argument in Signature in the Cell on its head. Let’s assume we get the first, simple life as a free gift.