Tag: self-replication
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.
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.
Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma
Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate.
Could Blind Forces Build a Self-Replicating Molecule?
Rob Stadler and Eric Anderson examine a recent paper on the origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.”