This “revolutionary animal” is not that much like the Cambrian creatures so far found but the big question is, how did life explode so quickly if it was only by chance? Why not just give up on that idea and study the creature for what it is?
Origin Of Life
Did a recent meteor hit bring us closer to the origin of life on Earth?
Friends had some doubts, reading this story…
Another argument as to how a complex metabolism “may have” self-assembled
The critical question is, why isn’t life originating from nothing all around us then?
Studies: Stars produce carbon faster than thought
Carbon, as Michael Denton explains in Miracle of the Cell (2020), is central to life.
Origin of life dustup: Once again, we discover why we love Inference Review
A genuine discussion between Helen Hansma and Brian Miller in the Letters Section about whether mica sheets made a difference. A refuge for serious dialogue. No pussyhats. No political endorsements.
Did microbes once thrive in arsenic world — a world without oxygen?
Researchers: Our team of geologists, physicists and biologists had found hints in fossilized stromatolites that arsenic was the chemical of choice for ancient photosynthesis and respiration.
Jonathan Bartlett: Elon Musk inadvertently tumbles to a big problem in origin of life theory
Bartlett: Indeed, whatever the difficulty of creating life in the lab, making individual prototypes is not nearly as problematic as making “the machine that makes the machine,” which all reproducing living cells can do. That is, the ability of an organism to reproduce is at least an order of magnitude harder that the ability of an organism to just live.
New origin of life theory emphasizes a hostile OOL environment
At one time, origin-of-life researchers were hoping it would all just swish into place in a favorable environment. If that didn’t work out, it must be a pretty tough field.
Rob Sheldon on origin of life as a “theoretically fertile dead end”
Sheldon: What hinders the field presently is an unstated reliance on materialism and its attendant mechanism, when information is manifestly non-material. What we need to make progress in OoL are matter-free tools for manipulating information: understanding its flow, its gradients, and its concentration.
Reminder: James Tour’s lecture at Andrew’s University, September 10 10:00 aM in Britain…
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At Aeon: As a discipline, origin of life is “World’s most theoretically fertile dead end”
The author, a science writer, keeps orbiting the topic of moving beyond Darwin. Her survey of the scene suggests that researchers are moving beyond Darwin in a variety of different directions. Not clear how they will all meet up…
Does the answer to the origin of life lie in quantum mechanics?
Sheldon: As a way out of this [origin of life] dilemma, many physicists reach into the religion bag and pull out spooky QM-at-a-distance. But it isn’t a solution, it is an admission of failure. For if they had reached a trifle deeper into the bag they would have pulled out Genesis 1. Instead, they have loosed this uncontrollable “dark matter”, “dark energy”, “dark QM” chaos god on the ordered universe of laws and purpose.
James Tour: Open access Zoom seminar September 3
Topic: Scientists are Clueless about Origin of Life
What? Cosmologist Sean Carroll doesn’t freak out when Darwin is doubted?
Interesting podcast in which astrophysicist Bartlett is permitted to question dogmas. The dogma about the One Single Common Ancestor that kicked off Darwinian evolution is the product of a prior belief in life’s sheer Flukiness. If you do not believe that life is a fluke, whatever else you believe, you can discard that One Single Cell doctrine as nonessential and problematic.
Steve Meyer on James Tour’s podcast
“In this interview, Dr. James Tour and Dr. Stephen Meyer discuss science and faith, while getting into the details on the discovery of complex, sequence specific information required for life’s function and origin, and the required fine-tuned laboratory that we call our universe that must exist in order for assembly to occur.” People are taking reality seriously? What next, we wonder?