Tag: Stanley Miller
What Scientists Fear: Foreword to The Mystery of Life’s Origin
Perhaps scientists fear that acceptance of this conclusion would open the door to the possibility (or the necessity) of a supernatural origin of life.
Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community
The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself.
Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show
We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.”
Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps
Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge.
The Origin of Life: Dangers of Taking Research Claims at Face Value
All simulations that purport to be breakthroughs in origins problems follow the same pattern.