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Sara Walker

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 15, 2022
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Paper at PNAS challenges universal common descent

Denyse O'Leary
March 15, 2022
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
The underlying issue may well be this: With the James Webb Space Telescope headed off to survey countless exoplanets, astrobiology (search for extraterrestrial life) is becoming cool. A strict neo-Darwinian approach, as in “All life unearth arose from a single cell” is, at best, inconvenient. At worst, a true bummer. The astrobiologist is going to be much happier with “prime candidates for developing new theory on the ‘laws of life’ that might apply to all possible biochemistries…” Life lesson: Researchers will sacrifice Darwinism pretty quickly when it is an actual impediment. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 12, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon on origin of life as a “theoretically fertile dead end”

Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Sheldon: What hinders the field presently is an unstated reliance on materialism and its attendant mechanism, when information is manifestly non-material. What we need to make progress in OoL are matter-free tools for manipulating information: understanding its flow, its gradients, and its concentration. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 7, 2020
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Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Davies and Walker on Origin of life: Life as information

Denyse O'Leary
March 7, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Walker and Davies, 2013: The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature. If life is more than just complex chemistry, its unique informational management properties may be the crucial indicator of this distinction [13]. Unfortunately, the way that information operates in biology is not easily characterized. Read More ›