Bumpass Hell – Uncommon Descent

New origin of life theory emphasizes a hostile OOL environment

At one time, origin-of-life researchers were hoping it would all just swish into place in a favorable environment. If that didn’t work out, it must be a pretty tough field.

bornagain77 Levin highlights the complete failure of the 'bottom-up' approaches of Darwinian materialism to provide any coherent explanation for how the... – Bioelectric code gains new recognition as...
kairosfocus AF & circle, namedropping particular structural patterns that are part of protein folding does not avert the obvious metastability, barrier... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
martin_r KF @222 CR, replication requires materials and components, properly arranged, oriented and coupled; You know what any replication requires? THE... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox Similarly, the “G-code” in CNC machines, perhaps created from a DXF file, bears absolutely zero resemblance to the finished part,... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Alan Fox ...more energetically stable but obviously non functional structure.Beta sheet conformation occurs in functional proteins. – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Alan Fox @ KF Both alpha helix and beta sheet are common conformations in protein structure that emerge from the precise sequence... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
kairosfocus OA94, GIGO is excellent here, in this case, ideological variant. KF – Joseph Miller: ChatGPT Still Can’t Process...
kairosfocus AF & circle, prions. The cascade of propagating misfolding suggests a falling downhill, more energetically stable but obviously non functional... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Alan Fox Relatd, You might also like to google Rosalind Franklin and read about how she worked out that DNA molecules have... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
kairosfocus CR, replication requires materials and components, properly arranged, oriented and coupled; requisites of configuration based function. That has to come... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox So, you claim proteins fold on their own, and automatically “know” how to assume the correct three-dimensional shape?Proteins are molecules.... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Querius JVL @20, Then can ID explain how sections of DNA are transcribed into proteins? While it's hard to believe after... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
AaronS1978 Remember folks Chuck and Sev can’t help themselves…….. But everyone else can….. – Skeptic argues free will is real
Origenes Spinoza // follow-up #38 Again, S embraces strict determinism and argues enthusiastically against free will, so he will not be... – Skeptic argues free will is real
Origenes According to Spinoza, we are fully determined: … every finite thing can neither exist nor be determined to produce an... – Skeptic argues free will is real
relatd Alan Fox, So, you claim proteins fold on their own, and automatically "know" how to assume the correct three-dimensional shape?... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
relatd CD at 36, Everyone has a tendency to sin, but looking at it from the purely rationalist perspective ignores the... – Skeptic argues free will is real
relatd JVL at 15, You have an intricate machine and that machine contains sensors. Take DNA repair. The sensors detect a... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
JVL Querius: ID is simply pragmatic Then can ID explain how sections of DNA are transcribed into proteins? IF the genetic... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Querius Martin_r @202, This is typical Darwinian. They call things machines, but they don’t mean machines. They call things engineering, but... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
JVL Jerry: You haven’t a clue what you are talking about. Well can you explain how the genetic 'code' works? That... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...