Category: Origin of Life | Page 20 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 27, 2022

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

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

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September 27, 2022

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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, 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

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September 25, 2022

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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, Rice University, waste products}

The “Clumping” Problem and the Origin of Life

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September 23, 2022

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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, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

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September 22, 2022

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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 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), 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

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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, mountains, oceans, proteins, RNA, rocks, Second Law of Thermodynamics, simplicity, soil, sugars}

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

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September 19, 2022

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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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Date
September 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, cells, Chernobyl, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, first cell, fungus, glucose, ID the Future, intelligent design, Long Story Short, natural causes, podcast, Rob Stadler}

An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing

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September 12, 2022

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What about reports of a radiotrophic fungus near the Chernobyl nuclear accident that can feed off radiation? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, illusion, neurons, neuroscience, qualia, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, self}

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

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September 8, 2022

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Science

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Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Read More ›

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Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ATP synthase, cellular machinery, Energy, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, Long Story Short, molecular machines, natural processes, podcast, Rob Stadler}

Energy Harnessing: Achilles Heel for the Origin of Life

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September 8, 2022

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This isn’t the sort of hurdle that mindless natural processes can overcome, but it is precisely the sort of problem that a designing mind could solve. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, astrobiology, Astrobiology Magazine, calcium, carbon, earth, elements, hydrogen, intelligence, intelligent design, magnesium, Mars, microbes, minerals, NASA, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, Robert Hazen, Stephen Jay Gould, sulfur, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

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August 29, 2022

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Read More ›