C. S. Lewis: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?”
Origin Of Life
At Live Science: 3.5 billion-year-old rock structures are one of the oldest signs of life on Earth
Stephanie Pappas writes: Fossils called stromatolites from Western Australia were created by microbes 3.48 billion years ago. Layered rocks in Western Australia are some of Earth’s earliest known life, according to a new study. The fossils in question are stromatolites, layered rocks that are formed by the excretions of photosynthetic microbes. The oldest stromatolites that Read More…
At Phys.org: New study finds our ancient relatives were not so simple after all
Lacking a naturalistic mechanism for the generation of the new information of novel features, the idea of the “loss of features” is put forward as a driving factor for supposed evolutionary advance.
At The Scientist: The Long and Winding Road to Eukaryotic Cells
“Despite recent advances in the study of eukaryogenesis, much remains unresolved about the origin and evolution of the most complex domain of life.”
At SciTech Daily: Traces of Ancient Ocean Discovered on Mars – This Means a “Higher Potential for Life”
“A major goal for the Mars Curiosity rover missions is to look for signs of life,” Cardenas said. “It’s always been looking for water, for traces of habitable life. This is the biggest one yet. It’s a giant body of water, fed by sediments coming from the highlands, presumably carrying nutrients.”
At Universe Today: Maybe We Don’t See Aliens Because Nobody Wants to Come Here
“For Hart, the only explanation for the lack of evidence of alien civilizations is that there are none.”
At SciTech Daily: Scientists Solve an Origin of Life Mystery
So many steps in this imagined process are mediated against by the known laws of physics, that to suggest it happened naturally is to depart from scientific credibility.
Otangelo Grasso has a new book out — Origin of life and the virus world
Good thing someone is including the virus world in the discussion.
At Earth Sky: How likely is an Earth-like origin of life elsewhere?
Paul Scott Anderson writes: We know that life originated on Earth some 3.7 billion years ago. But we still don’t understand exactly how life came to be. Likewise, we know little to nothing about life on other rocky worlds, even those that might be similar to Earth. Is life a rare occurrence, or is it common? Or somewhere in Read More…
At Rice U: “Dr. Tour EXPOSES the False Science Behind Origin of Life Research”
Abiogenesis theories do have a lot in common with speculative fiction.
At Evolution News: An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin
It’s fairly evident that non-theistic origin-of-life researchers, while seeing the daunting obstacles to any conceivable naturalistic pathway for abiogenesis, nevertheless believe that life arose naturally, not based on scientific evidence, but due to their nearly absolute determination that God’s creative agency not be considered.
At Evolution News: Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules
“Many variants of Stanley Miller’s experimental setup have been used in attempting to demonstrate the conversion of energy-rich, gaseous-phase chemicals into amino acids and other biomolecular monomers. But this is not nearly sufficient to generate life.”
At Evolution News: Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?
Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin write: Major scientific magazines and journals often feature articles on the “Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Science”1 — and the origin of life is almost always on that list, sometimes as the number one mystery.2 In this and coming posts we will explore key challenges to a natural, chemical origin of life. We’ll Read More…
At New Scientist: The Perseverance rover is finding more and more organic matter on Mars
Finding some brick-shaped rocks on a mountainside does not support the hypothesis that all the structure and infrastructure of a city came about by natural processes.
At Reasons.org: Have Astronomers Found Life’s Building Blocks?
Precursors to RNA remain distantly elusive.