Tag: homochirality

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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
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew Ellington, Assembly Theory, combinatorial space, homochirality, Lee Cronin, Lego blocks, machines, organic molecules, Paul Davies, scientists}

Is Assembling Life Like Assembling LEGOs?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 20, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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Unfortunately, Sara Walker provides no clue as to what process does all the “constraining,” “funneling,” and “scaffolding.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, biomolecules, Brian Keating, Closer to Truth, dark energy, dark matter, Discovery Institute, disinformation, EurekAlert!, evidence, homochirality, intelligent design, James Tour, Justin Brierley, living cells, natural processes, nucleosynthesis, particle physics, RNA, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Science Daily, stars, Stephen Meyer, universe}

From Scientists and Science Media, a Flood of Disinformation

_{Eric Hedin
April 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Spending time perusing popular science media outlets can give one the impression that much of science is on the verge of being overturned. Read More ›

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Author
Carl Linnaeus

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, asteroid, chiral centers, chromatography, enzymes, evaporation, glycine, heating, homochirality, minerals, oligopeptides, organic compounds, peptide bond, polymers, polypeptides, prebiotic world, ribose, RNA}

Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces

_{Carl Linnaeus
August 10, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically. Read More ›

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Author
James M. Tour

Date
April 7, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, air, carbohydrates, chemical reactions, chemicals, DNA, earth, first life, homochirality, information processing, information storage, lipids, metabolism, molecules, nanomachines, natural processes, nucleic acids, panspermia, proteins, RNA, sunlight, synthetic chemists, water}

Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

_{James M. Tour
April 7, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, amino acids, biochemists, brain damage, Casey Luskin, chemists, chirality, CRISPR-Cas9, DNA, evolution, fruit flies, homochirality, intelligent design, isoforms, James Tour, life, Louis Pasteur, lung cancer, Nature Communications, proteins, Rob Stadler, sugar, tumors}

Same-Handed Molecules Are an “Overarching Design Principle” in Life, Say Researchers

_{David Coppedge
November 29, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without foresight to solve heterochiral incidents, a primordial cell would quickly perish even if, against all odds, it began homochiral. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Psychology
Tagged
, amino acids, animation, ATP, dehydration, DNA, double helix, early Earth, enzyme, evolution, genomes, homochirality, hydration, intelligent design, intelligent designer, molecular machines, projection, replication, scientific materialism, supercoiling, topoisomerases, transcription}

New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

_{Brian Miller
March 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Psychology

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Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biopolymers, chirality, DNA, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, intelligent design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

_{Rob Stadler
November 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected. Read More ›

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Date
July 25, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, blind processes, Brian Miller, Brownian motion, cell death, Dave Farina, entropy, Eric Anderson, evolutionists, first cell, homochirality, Humpty Dumpty, ID the Future, intelligent design, interactome, James Tour, molecular machines, podcast, researchers}

More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series

_{Science and Culture
July 25, 2021

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Brian Miller discusses the Levinthal paradox of the interactome, the long odds of blind processes assembling the first cell, and the challenge of cell death. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, biological information, building blocks, cell membrane, chemists, DNA, homochirality, James Tour, laboratory, macromolecules, monomers, prebiotic Earth, proteins, protocells, Rice University, RNA}

James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Properly Combining Building Blocks

_{Brian Miller
April 1, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Any progress toward life would be lost if a fully functional cell did not emerge within a reasonably short period of time. Read More ›