Tag: Alexander Oparin

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, advice, Alexander Oparin, amino acids, Baltimore, biopolymers, building blocks, chemistry, computer languages, Dave Keeling, Deep Ocean Raman In Situ Spectrometer, DNA, education, Edward Anders, Edward T. Peltzer, extraterrestrial life, geology, Gustaf Arrhenius, Harold Urey, homochirality, hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, Klingons, lipid world, Mars, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, ocean chemistry, oceanography, organic chemistry, origin of life, Pope, prebiotic conditions, prebiotic soup, proteins, public school, racemization, RNA, RNA world, Roman Catholicism, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, solar system, Stanley Miller, starches, sugars, surface-based chemistry, theistic evolution, UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Heidelberg, Vulcans}

Interview with Edward Peltzer on the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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A student of Stanley Miller and Jeffrey Bada explains the failure of materialistic origin-of-life scenarios. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, asteroids, brains, consciousness, evolution, genes, mind, Murchison meteorite, philosophers, Roger Penrose, scientists, solar system, Stuart Hameroff, wave function}

Consciousness BEFORE Life? These Scientists Say Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 14, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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One key way life differs from non-life is that life forms have goals. For example, the amoeba seeks to protect itself. 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

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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 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

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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
Neil Thomas

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, evolution, Francesco Redi, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), William Harvey}

Considering “Abiogenesis,” an Imaginary Term in Science

_{Neil Thomas
April 11, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the 17th century, medical pioneer Sir William Harvey and Italian scientist Francesco Redi both proved the untenability of spontaneous generation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aeschylus, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, Hesiod, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, re-animation, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, computer simulations, DNA, enzyme, evolution, evolutionists, genome, information, laboratory, organisms, Popular Mechanics, random mutations, RNA, RNA world}

RNA World: Repeated Downfalls, Repeated Resurrections

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 12, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin-of-life research would be solved “very, very soon” hasn’t quite turned out right. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe}

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 27, 2020

Evolution

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Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Oparin, biological information, biologists, chance, chemical evolution, Claude Shannon, complexity, DNA, functional specificity, intelligent design, living cells, natural selection, random events, RNA, specification, specified complexity, The Mystery Life’s Origin}

Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As the pioneering chemical evolutionary theorist Alexander Oparin put it, “The problem of the nature of life and the problem of its origin have become inseparable.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, 1984 (novel), Alexander Oparin, cell membranes, coacervates, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, doublespeak, early Earth, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, media, meteorites, Miller-Urey experiment, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, public education, religion, researchers, ribozymes, RNA, scientific literature, scientists}

Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality

_{Brian Miller
August 7, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life, Physics

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In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public. Read More ›