Tag: ribozymes
Yale’s Steven Novella Falls for Origin-of-Life Hype
Novella is a prominent atheist who jumped at the chance to promote the secular creation narrative of life’s origin.
Do Proteins Lack Metals, Reflecting Poor Design?
According to Erika DeBenedictis, “one of the big limitations of biology are the basic building blocks themselves.”
Darrel Falk Badly Mischaracterizes RNA World Experiments. . .and Stephen Meyer
Falk claims that Meyer misled his readers by not mentioning an allegedly significant newer result.
Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree
The secret is to restrict one’s explanations for life to unguided natural events. Once that decision has been made, everything else flows deductively from it.
Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin
Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions.