One of the most fascinating sections of the book is “Circus Toy Models” where Mazur interviews those scientists involved with efforts to make life in the lab – from Jack Szostak and Matt Powner to Vincent Noireaux and Albert Libchaber to Steen Rasmussen and Norm Packard. Mazur also chats with James Simons (“Impresario Extraordinaire”) whose Simons Foundation is now seriously bankrolling origins research, including protocell development.
In Rethinking the Circus, i.e., the origin and evolution of life, Mazur talks with the late Carl Woese, and also with Nigel Goldenfeld – who calls for a consensus on what life is. Pier Luigi Luisi, who thinks we need all new origin of life “mindstorms.” And astrophysicist Piet Hut, who suggests that young scientists should consider a career in origin of life research over say, particle physics, and start organizing origins conferences. More.
Suzan Mazur The Origin of Life Circus
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A nice review from Bejan posted on a NASA group site … it kind of shines the light on rvb8’s recent mental vomit he laid on Susan Mazur.
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Upright Biped at 1, mental vomit, as you put it, is all Darwin’s followers can usually manage now.
I am naturally annoyed when they attempt to slime one of the genuinely decent science journalists in the United States. Someone who is really trying to cover the story. Mazur faced a lot of obstacles and addressed them honourably in trying to provide an account of how things are changing.
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She’s one of my favorites and she doesn’t necessarily support ID (I don’t think). She unravels the scientific jargon and does a great job in exposing what scientists really think. And she shows a lot of courage in the face of hostility.
The NASA reviewer, Adrian Bejan, has a very interesting approach to understanding design in nature, and his ideas seem to be increasingly influential.
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Of related interest, we now have fairly good evidence for photosynthesis being on earth as long as it has been possible for photosynthetic life to be on earth:
Moreover, in what I find to be a very fascinating discovery, it is found that photosynthetic life uses ‘non-local’, beyond space and time, quantum mechanical principles to accomplish photosynthesis.
At the 21:00 minute mark of the following video, Dr Suarez explains why photosynthesis needs a ‘non-local’, beyond space and time, cause to explain its effect:
Whereas materialists have no clue how to explain how non-local photosynthesis is possible, as a Theist, I have a non-local, beyond space and time, cause to appeal to to explain non-local photosynthesis:
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Of supplemental note: If these scientists are truly interested in how you get life from that which is dead, I suggest they look to One who defeated death and came back to life: