Origin Of Life
Scientific American wrestles with science’s unsolved mysteries – again
Shapiro: Pulling a cognitive rabbit out of a sentient hat?
All together now, the chorus once again: Chemical origins of life focus of current edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Paper: “The origin and relationship between the three domains of life is lodged in a phylogenetic impasse”
Do intelligent desgn theorists need the supernatural – just to leave room for a little mystery in life?
Origin of life: Pumice rafts “floating laboratories for early life”?
Origin of life “in a meteor crater-sized swimming pool in 10 million years”?
Darwinian evolution of earliest life? Read this, close your eyes, and just plain believe
Earliest fossils found in Australia, 3.4 bya
Origin of life # 3456: Okay, admit. We lost count.
A Substantial Conundrum Confronting The Chemical Origin Of Life
In ID circles we often discuss the sheer rarity of biologically relevant polypeptides with respect to combinatorial sequence space (and the related conundrum of macromolecular interdependence). It has often been argued that this represents a potent challenge to chemical origin-of-life models of an order substantially greater than the challenge it presents to biological evolution. There is one related problem in this regard which is often overlooked, and I want to briefly explore it in this blog entry. When it comes to polymerization of amino acids to form proteins, two things must be borne in mind with regards to the formation of peptide bonds. Peptide bond formation is an endothermic reaction. This means that the reaction requires the absorption of energy: Read More ›
An honest assessment of origin of life studies just could not let itself be written in today’s media
Can the mathematical and formal nature of physical law relationships be explained by physical and chemical interactions?
David R. Abel of the Origin of Life Science Foundation, Inc., says no. And also that the law he formulated on the subject has never been falsified, despite a number of journal publications. He posits it as The Law of Physicodynamic Insufficiency, as follows:
The Law of Physicodynamic Insufficiency states that physicochemical interactions are inadequate to explain the mathematical and formal nature of physical law relationships.
He offers his law for falsification.