Desperate for Good Headlines, Origin-of-Life Theorists Push Meager “New Organics in Meteorites” Story

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2013

Chemistry, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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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. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2013

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Death Valley Days: Chemists Propose a Seemingly Unlikely Environment for the Origin of Life

_{Science & Culture
February 27, 2013

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences

1}

Benner et al.'s ambitious task was to address some of the most compelling reasons cited by origin-of-life researchers who reject the RNA-world model. Read More ›

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Date
January 28, 2013

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Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
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, __k-review}

Chemists Ponder the Origin of Life

_{Science & Culture
January 28, 2013

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences

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The American Chemical Society recently dedicated a whole issue of Accounts of Chemical Research to the puzzle of life's chemical origins. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 14, 2013

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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It’s Not the "Complexity"

_{David Klinghoffer
January 14, 2013

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

A clich� popular with journalists holds that ID is all about how life is "too complex" to have originated or evolved without direction from some source of intelligence. Read More ›

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Date
May 12, 2012

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Research, science}

Homochirality, a Puzzle in Biology that Remains Unsolved

_{Science & Culture
May 12, 2012

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

1}

Turns out, the problem isn't any easier to explain in two dimensions than in three. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 1, 2012

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review}

The Challenge to Darwinism from a Single Remarkably Complex Enzyme

_{Ann Gauger
May 1, 2012

Chemistry, Evolution

1}

How does a neo-Darwinian process evolve an enzyme like carbamoyl phosphate synthetase? Read More ›

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Date
May 1, 2012

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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, __k-review}

Synthetic Genetics Is ID, not Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
May 1, 2012

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

How can geneticists engineer unnatural molecules -- intelligent design, without doubt -- and call them examples of Darwinian evolution? It happened this month in the journal Science. Read More ›

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Date
March 16, 2012

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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, __k-review, David Coppedge, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lawsuit, NASA, proteins, ribozymes, RNA world, science, trial}

A New Study Questions RNA World

_{Science & Culture
March 16, 2012

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

Researchers at the University of Illinois used phylogenetic modeling methods to evaluate the evolutionary history of the ribosome. Read More ›

crystal of Zircon gemstone on dark background

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Date
December 7, 2011

Categories
Chemistry
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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, __k-review, early Earth, oxygen, Research, zircon}

A Big Problem for Naturalistic Explanations of Life’s Origins: Zircon Shows Oxygen Present in the Early Earth

_{Science & Culture
December 7, 2011

Chemistry, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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New studies show that oxygen was present in Earth's atmosphere at or near its current levels 4.4 billion years ago. Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2011

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, common descent, evolution, Nobel Prize, science, Wikipedia}

Rebel with a Nobel Prize: The Lesson of Daniel Shechtman

_{Science & Culture
October 10, 2011

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

1}

Are quasicrystals an example of information arising from chemistry? What can we learn from Dr. Shechtman's example? Read More ›