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Origin Of Life

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 8, 2020
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Origin of life dustup: Once again, we discover why we love Inference Review

Denyse O'Leary
October 8, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 27, 2020
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Jonathan Bartlett: Elon Musk inadvertently tumbles to a big problem in origin of life theory

Denyse O'Leary
September 27, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 12, 2020
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Rob Sheldon on origin of life as a “theoretically fertile dead end”

Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 8, 2020
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At Aeon: As a discipline, origin of life is “World’s most theoretically fertile dead end”

Denyse O'Leary
September 8, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 2, 2020
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Does the answer to the origin of life lie in quantum mechanics?

Denyse O'Leary
September 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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What? Cosmologist Sean Carroll doesn’t freak out when Darwin is doubted?

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 18, 2020
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Steve Meyer on James Tour’s podcast

Denyse O'Leary
August 18, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
"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? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 8, 2020
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Dave Coppedge comments on New Scientist’s “Big Bang” origin of life theory

Denyse O'Leary
August 8, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Coppedge: Marshall and the evolutionists he marshals together know full well that any of the basic requirements for life – metabolism, a container and a code – are unlikely to spontaneously form separately, much less together at the same time and place. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 2, 2020
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Claim: Self-replicating molecules show signs of “metabolism”

Denyse O'Leary
August 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Rob Stadler: (puncturing the balloon) The fact that it is recognized as a meaningful contribution is a testimony to the desperation to show progress—it stands out only because no meaningful progress can be made in any direction that is actually relevant to life. Read More ›