Category: Origin Of Life
The First Gene: “Without formal control, no life would exist.”
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
“Life is an intersection of the physical sciences of chemistry and physics and the nonphysical formalism of information science.” more
Planets not tethered to suns could ferry life around galaxy?
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
Sunless planets were in search of a headline until this thesis came along. more
From The First Gene, Chapter 9: “Inanimate nature … cannot scheme to locally and temporarily circumvent the 2nd Law.”
| February 22, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
“No plausible hypothetical scenario exists that can convert chance and/or necessity into an organized protometabolic scheme.” more
Definition of life: Amino acids, sugars could be “very primitive and simplistic life forms”?
| February 16, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
Trifonov: “The hypothetical primitive RNA replication process has a degree of sophistication that separates it from mere chemistry.” more
Darwin’s “warm little pond” origin of life labelled “absurd”
| February 15, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
“Life was unlikely to survive on land 3.8 billion years ago, at a time when meteorites were pummelling Earth.” more
Origin of life researcher: Modern cells might not reflect origin of life conditions
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
If “we can’t be sure that the chemistry of modern cells reflects the chemical conditions in which the first cells emerged,” then the origin of life has no traceable history. more
If today’s origin of life theorists are right, life did not originate.
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
The fact that after all this time, no one has ever found a legendary “protocell” is suspicious, surely. more
Is the definition of life itself busting free of Darwin’s shackles?
| February 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
There are 123 definitions of life currently on the table, and a new one is proposed: Life is self-reproduction with variations. Thoughts? more
Indiana Senate passes bill to teach Christian, Hindu, and Scientology origin of life – among others …
| February 5, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life, science education |
The crazy part is that “origin of life” normally means the origin of the first living cells, and most religious groups have avoided detailed explanations of that. more
Peer review: Co-authors of disputed arsenic-based life paper have vanished into the woodwork?
| February 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News, Origin Of Life |
“It appears they bought and fueled the bus; put bright lights and banners on it; cheered as Wolfe-Simon drove it a bit wildly honking the horn; and have now thrown her under it.” more
ID Foundations 15(c) — A FAQ on Front-Loading, thanks to Genomicus
| February 1, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, Genetics, ID Foundations, Origin Of Life |
Onlookers, Geno concludes for the moment with FAQ’s: ____________________ Geno: >> A Testable ID Hypothesis: Front-loading, part C In the last two articles on front-loading, I explained what the front-loading hypothesis is all about and some research questions we can ask from a front-loading perspective. This article will be an FAQ about the front-loading hypothesis.… more
Jerry Coyne won’t meet Moshe Averick to discuss the origin of life puzzle – but turns out he’s just as puzzled … .
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
” … we don’t know how life started and it’s a really thorny problem because nobody was there …” more
Darwinist Jerry Coyne refuses to discuss origin of life in person with maverick rabbi; claims he oppresses women
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
By the way, James Shapiro, currently sparring with the ID theorists, admits that origin of life is still on the fringe of science. more
Once upon a time, before DNA or RNA, there was TNA … if it ever existed in life forms
| January 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“… there are problems with the hodge-podge world hypothesis.” more
Nature: Arsenic-based life couldn’t be replicated in different lab’s study
| January 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News, Origin Of Life |
“I fear that there will be a prolonged slow rearguard battle of its advocates until the whole story will finally be forgotten, rather than an outright retraction.” more
Yes, science should rethink the definition of life
| January 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Origin Of Life |
If we can’t classify it, what makes us sure that it is life? Following that up might get us somewhere. more
Life forms that remain unclassified
| January 7, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life, speciation |
“the Doushantuo rock formation contains billions of microfossils, many of which have no traits that are diagnostic of any living group and contain features that are not of biological origin” more
Are battles over the origin of life a recent science question?
| January 6, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
Not according to Moshe Averick, who writes in The Confused, Illusory World of the Atheist, … more
The Scientist: 2011’s top science scandals feature arsenic-based life
| January 4, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
“The paper, which has been cited 26 times, has yet to be retracted.” more
David Abel: What, specifically, makes life unique?
| January 3, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
“Life manifests innumerable formalisms that cannot be generated or explained by physicodynamics alone.” more
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