World famous chemist James Tour explains.
Origin Of Life
Life never originates where they say. But grants do.
Actually, the researchers are not so dumb when you consider that looking for chance events attracts the grants. Little else would.
Is finding extraterrestrial life inevitable and does it prove the existence of God?
Hugh Ross: The discovery of life in another planetary system would indicate another instance of such divine intervention, meaning our universe would contain not just one origin-of-life miracle, but two.
SETI: Four origin of life scientists imagine the beginning
Bring your own snacks and pillow.
Is a 3-D printer alive?
Clearly, we have come a long way in thinking up new ways to explore the origin of life problem.
Why describing DNA as “software” doesn’t really work
Check out Science Uprising 3. In contemporary culture, we are asked to believe – in an impressive break with observed reality – that the code of life wrote itself: … mainstream studies are funded, some perhaps with tax money, on why so many people don’t “believe in” evolution (as the creation story of materialism). The […]
Plant expert: Very ancient fungi made life possible for plants on Earth
The history of life keeps changing on us. Much more stasis, much less Darwin. Where will we end up?
ID Breakthrough — Syn61 marks a live case of intelligent design of a life form
Let’s read the Nature abstract: Nature (2019) Article | Published: 15 May 2019 Total synthesis of Escherichia coli with a recoded genome Julius Fredens, Kaihang Wang, Daniel de la Torre, Louise F. H. Funke, Wesley E. Robertson, Yonka Christova, Tiongsun Chia, Wolfgang H. Schmied, Daniel L. Dunkelmann, Václav Beránek, Chayasith Uttamapinant, Andres Gonzalez Llamazares, Thomas […]
Researchers: Rare ocean life forms breathe arsenic in low oxygen environments
What’s amazing is the way life, once started, exploits every avenue, and yet how DOES it get started?
New OOL book: Life rests on physics but can’t be derived from it
Walker disagrees with this view, of course, but the problem is, physics is a mess just now and whether biology can be derived from it might depend on which piece you are holding. And who agrees that that piece is indeed a part of physics?
Did life get started on planetesimals before Earth formed?
If life got started so quickly back then—and there is no evidence of it ever just getting started somehow, time after time, since then—either life was an event triggered from outside nature as we know it or it was implicit in the Big Bang (but that would point to some kind of encoded information).
Globally famous chemist James Tour on the origin of life
Talk: What if the discoveries of science actually lend support to belief in God?
Researchers: Origin of life more likely in ponds, assisted by lightning, than oceans
The researcher’s analogy is interesting (more like building a cathedral than knocking over a row of dominos). If the origin of life were like knocking over a row of dominos, life would be coming into existence ex nihilo, easily and often. That is assuredly not what we find.
Walter Bradley: Tell people about AI, not sci-fi
His struggle to bring reality to“sci-fi” origin of life research is Intro of the Walter Bradley Center’s inspiration for our work on AI: The Bradley Center hopes to have a similar effect by promoting more general knowledge of fundamental issues around “thinking computers and questions around the real effects of technology on human well-being. A friend […]
OOL researcher Paul Davies: They used to make fun of me for saying Earth, Mars swapped microbes…
If we discover life on Mars and it turns out to be a lot like life on Earth, as Davies suggests, will that be experienced as an achievement or a disappointment? It certainly won’t prove anything like what some have hoped. Heck, it won’t even prove that We Are NOT Alone…