Tag: RNA world
Fact Check: A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?
The lauding of Gerald Joyce’s research is pure hype. His results only further demonstrate the absolute necessity of intelligent agency.
The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain.
From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research
The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day.
Another Headache for the RNA World Theory
Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate.
First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists
On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors.