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Origin Of Life

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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2021
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Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon on life from the lab: “Information first” is essential

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Information first means it can never be random, just as OOL in the lab is not random. But that doesn't mean that info-first cannot produce OOL. I've written a paper on the info-first OOL problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Why isn’t life being synthesized in a laboratory?

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Synthesis of life in a laboratory is intelligent design. But using intelligent design only means we’ve left the world of fantasy (“it all just sort of happened a long time ago… ”). Here’s an example of a typical real problem: Living cells cannot reach equilibrium because their metabolisms would stop. They must dance till the music stops. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Biology, Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Researcher: Biology transcends the limits of computation

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Biology, Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Marshall: The present paper uses information theory (the mathematical foundation of our digital age) and Turing machines (computers) to highlight inaccuracies in prevailing reductionist models of biology, and proposes that the correct causation sequence is cognition > code > chemicals. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 27, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Video
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New animated short on the origin of life is a lot of fun

Denyse O'Leary
October 27, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Video
At ENST: Stadler and Anderson explore how origin-of-life papers and popular media reports have misled the public, evidenced by a survey underscored by Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 22, 2021
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Origin Of Life
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Design theorist Eric Anderson on claims for a self-replicating machine

Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2021
Origin Of Life
Anderson: "The Cornell molecubes didn’t build themselves. Instead, they were built by intelligent researchers using other tools and systems — by a separate “factory” so to speak — that was, in turn, built by other tools and systems, and so on. Yet beyond the observation of this uncomfortable regress, there are several additional instructive issues we need to examine if we are to really appreciate what self-replication entails." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Tan and Stadler’s recent book tackles claims of life from the lab

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Royal Truman: "The hype which accompanied the publication in 2010 of what they dubbed Synthia overlooked how nothing of relevance to support evolution was accomplished. In a nutshell, the DNA sequence of a living bacterium was duplicated synthetically, and then transferred into a living cell. This would be comparable to copying a program from one computer to a different one, and then giving the impression the entire system, including hardware and operating system, could have originated on its own." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 11, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Origin of life theories discount the problem of degradation

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Stadler and Tan: Hundreds of millions of years of “deep time” is frequently cited as the saving feature for the profound improbability of each step of the Stairway [to Life]. Yet time is only an ally of a slow constructive process if degradation is ignored. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 11, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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At BiorXiv: LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) more complex than supposed

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Note that last sentence: “Our results depict LUCA as likely to be a far more complex cell than has previously been proposed, challenging the evolutionary model of increased complexity through time in prokaryotes. Given current estimates for the emergence of LUCA we suggest that early life very rapidly evolved considerable cellular complexity.” Just an accident. Nothing to see here. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Plants
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Another issue re the origin of plants between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago…

Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Plants
Timothy Standish: I couldn’t help but notice that the time photosynthesis is supposed to have evolved doesn’t line up with either the time when oxygen is supposed to have become an important element in the atmosphere, half a billion years later, or the time that fixed carbon begins showing up in the fossil record, which is much earlier, possibly over half a billion years. Read More ›