Natural Code Prize – Uncommon Descent

If you can reproduce how life got started, $10 million is yours

Financial Times: Wealthy investors are offering a $10m prize to the first scientific team that can create a genetic code from simple chemicals.

bornagain77 FH tries to excuse his trolling by calling it 'black humor" and then reiterates his false claim, "But the fact... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Fred Hickson So what has led Fred Hickson to irrationally deny the plain scientific fact that the genetic code is a literal... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Upright BiPed . Today… UB: So what is your answer? Fred: I still don’t know what you mean by a constraint 15... – At Evolution News: Günter Bechly repudiates...
Fred Hickson I responded https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/at-evolution-news-gunter-bechly-repudiates-professor-daves-attacks-against-id/#comment-759576 – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Fred Hickson Now, can I repeat my question to Upright Biped, Do you have a preferred version of your semiotic hypothesis that... – At Evolution News: Günter Bechly repudiates...
Fred Hickson Here's another paper looking for evolutionary clues in comparing aaRSs which cover in much more detail points I have tried... – At Evolution News: Günter Bechly repudiates...
vividbleau For all of Jholo’s self righteous preening over people of color the abortion rate by black women is 5 times... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
Fred Hickson It seems to me that African slaves were also once considered not to be “human” either, but a prehuman vestige... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
vividbleau “I grasp the fact that a feeling, thinking person’s rights to what happens with her body…” Correct me if I... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
relatd For those who think a pre-born baby is not allowed to live because it has not been born, there is... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
Fred Hickson UB at 723 Here again is the question: Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase (aaRS) play one of the critical roles in establishing... – At Evolution News: Günter Bechly repudiates...
tjguy "However, it’s relevant to note that just finding carbon-12 is not a signature of life. Carbon is the 4th most... – Mars Curiosity Rover Collects Rock Samples...
relatd JH at 285, If you were a fertilized egg, an embryo and fetus, would it be OK to kill you... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
kairosfocus JH, there is and can be no right to kill another at will and you know it. The rights of... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
relatd CD at 13, I can't tell you where I'm a moderator. Keep in mind that what you call pandering to... – Why Darwinism can be taught in...
Querius It seems to me that African slaves were also once considered not to be "human" either, but a prehuman vestige... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
chuckdarwin ET/14 But it is just as probable, perhaps more so, that Christianity is the Big Lie. So who’s kidding who... – Why Darwinism can be taught in...
dogdoc I don't understand what is meant by "material" in these discussions. Are quantum fields "material"? Is spacetime "material"? These things... – Michael Egnor: Is consciousness the sort...
Fred Hickson Upright Biped comment 720 From another thread… [quoting] Fred: My initial point that RNA World refutes Upright Biped’s hypothesis is... – At Evolution News: Günter Bechly repudiates...
dogdoc Fasteddious@5, I had written my response offline, posted before seeing yours. We are indeed very closely aligned! Here are a... – Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are...
dogdoc Fasteddious@5, I had written my response offline, posted it before seeing yours. We are indeed very closely aligned! Here are... – Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are...