The slingshot of life? According to this version of the tale, the eukaryotes are descended from the Asgard archaea.
Origin Of Life
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.
James Tour: 1 hr lecture on OoL
on the mystery of the origin of life: From the blurb: Dr. Tour is one of the world’s top synthetic organic chemists. He has authored 680 scientific publications and holds more than 120 patents (here is a partial list). In 2014, Thomson Reuters named him one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds,” and in Read More…
Live Event: On Life in the Universe
At Youtube, here: Note, the assumption that the cosmos is a closed system, which is philosophically loaded. Let us monitor — note, several hours from the beginning. END
Maybe messiness somehow jiggered life into existence?
It’s not so clear that simple complexity can produce anything. What is the organizing principle? If there is a goal, how does it come to exist?
Origin of life clue is seen in chemical droplets that divide
OOL researcher David Deamer disputes the new claim. “The mechanism is a far cry, he noted, from the complicated, multistep process by which modern cells divide.” But so? It’s the Narrative, right?
Microbes found in some of Earth’s oldest known uncontaminated water
How they got there is apt to be a cause of speculation.
If you can reproduce how life got started, $10 million is yours
Financial Times: Wealthy investors are offering a $10m prize to the first scientific team that can create a genetic code from simple chemicals.