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 Well that was an interesting article. In the first part of his article Epperson bemoans the “fallacy of misplaced concreteness.”... – Celebrity physicists are in a row...
Sandy Bob O'H Martin_r @ 4 – again, this is an A D A P T A T I O N... – Misleading claims about a long running...
Bob O'H Martin_r @ 4 - again, this is an A D A P T A T I O N …. why... – Misleading claims about a long running...
Bob O'H We'll see, but to me it sounds like a mechanism of DNA repair. – Human cells write RNA sequences into...
Sandy Pater Kimbridge @Sandy No…. more like how gravity functions to bring hydrogen together to make stars where none existed before.... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
Querius Kairosfocus @8, What you're describing are the evidences of intelligent design, namely fine tuning, fantastic complexity, emergence of novel body... – Jonathan Bartlett: Intelligent Design Is Not...
Querius Lawrence Krauss apparently doesn't understand nothing. Nothing is not space without time. Probability requires time. And space-time is something, not... – Celebrity physicists are in a row...
Querius Not practically. But that's not to say that quantum effects don't manifest in our macro world. Solar fusion, lasers, photosynthesis,... – Can only math solve the mystery...
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES In Science today, the public cant learn the truth. In practical terms, its impossible. As we have seen the leaders... – Why is science reporting so bad?
solemn existence Germaine to the discussion on body plan information, there's a 4 part series on the topic at ID the future.... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
Seversky Sounds like it might be a way of getting new information into a genome when ID/creationism argued it could only... – Human cells write RNA sequences into...
Seversky I have known science journalists for whom I had the greatest respect. They clearly cared very much about the subject... – Why is science reporting so bad?
ET Doubter, see the first comment. – Misleading claims about a long running...
ET Pater Kimbridge: Which is why I find it best to listen to the consensus of biologists when it comes to... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
mohammadnursyamsu KRock the one thing that matters is, the extent to which the scientists are materialists. There is materialist philosophy, which... – Why science is losing prestige…
mohammadnursyamsu Querius, Ofcourse I know nothing, but I can only call it as I see it, right? And like many, just... – Can only math solve the mystery...
Pater Kimbridge @Martin_r #22 Nope. Engineer. Which is why I find it best to listen to the consensus of biologists when it... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
Pater Kimbridge @Sandy No.... more like how gravity functions to bring hydrogen together to make stars where none existed before. And lava... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
doubter ET@8 Yes, it was a simple case of evolution, but no new complicated mechanism was created. Very little new information.... – Misleading claims about a long running...
ET Martin_r, E coli already had the ability to digest citrate. In the presence of oxygen the gene that codes for... – Misleading claims about a long running...
asauber You can't just blame journalists. You can blame them, but they are just 1/3 of the real story. I haven't... – Why is science reporting so bad?