Tag: self-replication
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.
Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design?
A reader must ask if an RNA molecule could possibly govern chemical reactions, suppress free-riders, support co-operators, and act in its own self-interest.
Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate
Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell.
Origin Stories — RNA, DNA, and a Dose of Imagination
Forever lacking are the key elements required for life: coordinated activity, coherent function, regulated control, meaningful information, purposeful intent.
Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…
“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins.