Walker and Davies, 2013: The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature. If life is more than just complex chemistry, its unique informational management properties may be the crucial indicator of this distinction [13]. Unfortunately, the way that information operates in biology is not easily characterized.
Origin Of Life
Protein found inside a meteorite
But then what are the chances that some of this stuff came from Earth in the first place? If there is indeed a road, the traffic might be going both ways.
At Unbelievable: James Tour vs. Lee Cronin on origin of life
From Unbelievable: Nanotechnology Prof James (Jim) Tour & Glasgow biology Lee Cronin debate contemporary Origins of Life research and whether Lee’s lab is on the way to discovering it.
What? A skeptical view of RNA world? The five-star hotel of origin of life theories?
Why is a mere science writer now allowed to dump on the gold standard of OOL theories? Stand by…
Podcast: Walter Bradley on the new, expanded edition of The Mystery of Life’s origin
From ID the Future: On this episode of ID the Future, Robert J. Marks interviews Walter Bradley, co-author of the seminal 1984 ID book The Mystery of Life’s Origin, now being released in a revised and expanded edition with updates from multiple contributors discussing the progress (or lack of it) in origins science in the 35 years since the book’s original publication.
Researchers: Homogenous RNA could emerge from a primordial mess
Friends doubt that the random polymerizing of nucleotides is going to explain the origin of information needed for “RNA genomes” to come into existence.
Claim: The tree of life may have only two major branches
The slingshot of life? According to this version of the tale, the eukaryotes are descended from the Asgard archaea.
Show a naturalistic origin of life and win $10 million
Interesting to see Denis Noble taking part in the discussion.
Archeon life form eats fragments of meteorites
At ScienceAlerts: This particular mineral connoisseur loves to dine on far more exotic rocks – ones that come from space.
Drug developers try producing chirality
But when they do it, it doesn’t sound very random at all.
Natural selection cannot explain the origin of life on Earth
But the idea continues to exist in the world of half-ideas, the world of “if only.” Ideas that might work as fiction but we want them to be fact. Let’s call it Darwin’s “warm little pond”: “”But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond… ”
An article at MSN news suggests that Darwin might have been wrong (!)
It’s just a conventional story in favor of hydrothermal vents for the origin of life. Some of us can remember back to when most such stories would begin by announcing that they had proven Darwin right. Funny how the rhetoric is changing.
Real science vs pseudoscience—according to pop science
Davis goes on to identify exploded science theories, for example, spontaneous generation of life. But stop, wait! The very doctrine of the natural origin of life from inanimate materials teaches precisely this. Is Davis saying that the one true doctrine of naturalism on the subject is wrong?
Rob Sheldon on the renewal of 3.5 billion-year-old life claims
Sheldon: My best guess is that he has found something organically simple such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), if only because 3.5 billion years is a long time for organics to survive, and PAHs are the sort of keratonized (turned into keragen) that is stable.
Stromatolites from 3.5 bya really ARE microbial life, say researchers
This doesn’t leave a lot of time for Darwinian evolution (natural selection acting on random mutation). Not nearly enough, in fact.