Tag: primordial soup
Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw
The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts.
Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life
This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases.
James Tour: Primordial Soup Bluffing Goes Right to the Top
Dr. Tour also reviews survey data showing just how misinformed the public is about how far scientists have gotten in creating life in the lab.
Origin of Life: James Tour and Dave Farina Will Debate at Rice University on Friday; Watch Here
Dr. Tour is highly skeptical that theorists have got it all figured out about how life arose on a barren early Earth through known material processes alone.
Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life
Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth.