Author: Walter Bradley

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biomolecules, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), genetic information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, life, National Center for Biotechnology Information, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, prebiotic Earth, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Stephen Meyer, Walter Bradley}

An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 29, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Canada, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Francis Crick, George Wald, habitability, hero, materialists, microfossils, miracle, Nobel Prize, Quebec, Scientific American}

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 28, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, American Biology Teacher, Brian Miller, cells, cellular machinery, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA, enzymes, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Frank Salisbury, genetic code, information, intelligent agents, Jeremy England, molecular machines, physicists, RNA, simplest cell}

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 27, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Casey Luskin, DNA, early Earth, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Gerald Joyce, information sequence problem, intelligent design, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Robert Shapiro, Scientific Reports, Stanley Miller, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley}

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

11}

For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, cell membrane, cells, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), James Tour, lipid bilayer, oxidation, plasma membrane, Rice University, Sidney Fox, waste products}

The “Clumping” Problem and the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 23, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

In the 1970s, biochemist Sidney Fox and colleagues believed they had uncovered primitive cell membrane-like structures called protenoid microspheres. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, seawater, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 22, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ammonia, atmosphere, building blocks, carbon dioxide, David Deamer, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), gases, hydrothermal vent, methane, Miller-Urey experiment, monomers, NASA, National Research Council, Nick Lane, primordial soup, Science (journal), University College London}

A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.” Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Aristotle, biopolymers, building blocks, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Harold C. Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, Paris, proteins, RNA}

All Living Systems Must Process Energy, Store and Utilize Information, and Replicate

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 20, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Louis Pasteur showed that what appeared to be life springing forth from nonliving matter was actually life emerging from exceedingly small living organisms. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Charles Darwin, complexity, DNA, electricity, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), grass, James Clerk Maxwell, living systems, Ludwig Boltzmann, magnetism, mountains, oak tree, oceans, proteins, RNA, rocks, sand, Second Law of Thermodynamics, simplicity, soil, sugars}

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Discovery Institute Press, hypotheses, Melvin Calvin, naturalism, On the Origin of Species, positivism, science, scientists, special creation, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theism, tolerance}

Metaphysical Tolerance: A Discipline for Progress

_{Walter Bradley, Charles Thaxton, and Roger E. Olsen
March 25, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

6}

The quest for truth has never been easy, and has on more than a few occasions been known to make one unpopular. Read More ›