Tag: self-replication
Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis
Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble.
What Is the Essence of Life?
The strength of the intelligent design explanation for life lies in its full-orbed ability to address all aspects of life.
Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”
It’s good to find another scientist — with no connections to intelligent design — who sees the issue so clearly.
Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not
It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold.
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.