Ribozyme experiments suggest that for life to originate, what was needed was a goal in mind, an agent in charge, with the means to implement a preconceived plan. We have a name for that.
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As evidence for the chemical origin of life, the news media are touting a new analysis of a meteorite that fell to earth in Sutter's Mill, California.
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Most theorists believe that there were many steps involved in the origin of life, but the very first step would have involved a primordial soup -- a water-based sea of simple organic molecules.
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Conventional wisdom among origin-of-life theorists holds that when you try to conduct Miller-Urey type experiments with the actual gasses present on the early Earth, you don't get amino acids.
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His new book includes so many compelling statements about the weaknesses in neo-Darwinian and chemical evolution that it would violate copyright to reproduce them all.
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