From Real Clear Science:
When biologists get together to discuss the nagging mysteries in their diverse field, there’s always that elephant in the room: How did life spring up from non-life? But, according to highly regarded cancer researcher Robert Weinberg, it’s an elephant that most biologists ignore, or at least discreetly avoid. “Origin of life is not something people work on that much because it’s so far away from resolution.”
Instead, biologists turn their attention to other problems, fruits that hang a bit lower on the tree. Though these queries may not be of existential interest, they’re no less fascinating.
Your Nobel? Here’s one:
It is a beautiful irony that the smallest of creatures is at the center of one of the largest mysteries in biology. Plankton, microscopic marine organisms, are wide-ranging and diverse. Strangely, as many as a dozen species can co-exist in relatively small, homogenous habitats, like lakes. This flouts the hugely successful competitive exclusion principle, which states that when multiple species vie for the same resources, one will eventually drive the others to extinction.
It’s no paradox if you dismiss Darwin first. Just a fact. Enjoy the rest.
PS: We don’t really know that the competitive exclusion principle IS hugely successful, only that one can easily get permission to teach it as such. It could be flouted all the time in nature, but why would THAT matter, compared to what taxpayers are compelled to fund?
See also: Why origin of life is such a hard
(origin of life)
Thank you News for this OP.
Have a good weekend!
PS. Here’s a recent paper reference along the same lines:
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-565158
as to:
Translation,
“since we don’t want to ever admit that it is impossible for unguided material processes to explain where life came from in the first place, then we will just sit back and make up ‘just so stories’ about how all the other wonders in life came about by unguided material processes. It’s much easier to pretend you are doing science when you don’t actually have to question the false presupposition(s) of naturalism.
OT: Ben Carson’s ID The Future interview made it on cnsnews:
Ben Carson on Evolution: ‘Life Evolve From Non-Life? Incredible Fairy Tales’
By Michael W. Chapman | May 13, 2015
http://cnsnews.com/blog/michae.....ry-tales-0
More unsolved problems in biology:
Is cancer closer to be conquered Mr Weinberg? Are you doing your job or trying to figure out more difficult conclusions on the origin of life?
The origin of life is settled. the bible says all about it.
i think cancer can be beat and thats the mystery in biology to be figurede out.
Over two years later are they still unsolved?