Tag: origin of life
Paper Reports that Amino Acids Used by Life Are Finely Tuned to Explore “Chemistry Space”
They attribute this fine-tuning to natural selection.
“Solution” to an Origin of Life Puzzle Highlights the Need for Careful Planning by an Intelligent Investigator
A new paper in Nature Chemistry claims to show that many building blocks of life could have been created through organic chemistry on the early Earth.
PNAS Paper Admits Understanding the Origin of Cellular Features Is a “Glaring Gap” in Evolutionary Biology
This remains a major problem for evolutionary thinking, whether under an adaptationist or a neutralist model.
No Blind Watchmaker Created the RNA World
Ribozyme experiments suggest that for life to originate, what was needed was a goal in mind, an agent in charge, with the means to implement a preconceived plan. We have a name for that.
Can Life’s Building Blocks Form "Naturally in Our Solar System"?
On this point, Ken Miller’s Pearson Biology textbook, adopted for use in Texas, contains multiple false statements.