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White chimneys, Eifuku volcano, by NOAA, via Wikimedia Commons.

Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue

A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors. Read More ›
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The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information

In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life. Read More ›

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