Tag: Jack Szostak

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, beta-lactamase, calculations, cars, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, formalism, Jack Szostak, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Mount Rushmore, probability, protein folds, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, base pairs, Bayesian reasoning, BioCosmos, causal circularity, DNA, first life, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, likelihood ratio, mutations, naturalistic philosophy, proteins, replication fidelity, ribonucleotides, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Sy Garte, teleology}

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 14, 2023

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

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On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Bruce Lipshutz, challenge, Clemens Richert, Dave Farina, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, judges, Lee Cronin, Nicholas Hud, Professor Dave Explains, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, researchers, Rice University, Steve Benner, Twitter, YouTube videos}

Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, building blocks, Center for Chemical Evolution, DNA, early Earth, evolution, Georgia Tech, ideology, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jon Perry, Long Story Short, methodological naturalism, Murchison meteorite, NASA, National Science Foundation, natural processes, null hypothesis, outer space, proteins, recycling, repair, RNA, self-assembly, self-replicating molecule, solar system, Stated Clearly, sugars, University of Chicago, YouTube videos}

On Origin of Life, “Stated Clearly” Has Clearly Misled Viewers

_{Rob Stadler
May 8, 2023

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

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Jon Perry may be a proponent of methodological naturalism, which constrains science to consider only natural causes, regardless of the scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Discovering Intelligent Design, information, information sequence problem, intelligence, Jack Szostak, Long Story Short, machines, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, origin of information, proteins, replication, RNA, RNA world, Scientific American, self-replicating molecule, specified information, Stanley Miller, transcription, translation, UC San Diego}

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biomolecules, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), genetic information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, life, National Center for Biotechnology Information, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, prebiotic Earth, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Stephen Meyer, Walter Bradley}

An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 29, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Astrobiology (journal), basalt lava glass, early Earth, earth, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, intelligent agency, investigators, Jack Szostak, James Tour, Mars, natural processes, nucleoside triphosphates, nucleotides, phosphates, ribonucleic acid, RNA, RNA world}

Origin of Life from Basalt Lava Glass? Sorry, No

_{Brian Miller
June 15, 2022

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

An honest evaluation of the studies leads to the conclusion that the formation of RNA could not have occurred through any natural processes on the early earth. Read More ›

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
May 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, abiogenesis, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, early Earth, factories, Gerald F. Joyce, Harvard University, Holy Grail, Jack Szostak, Joseph Hooker, metabolic pathways, molecules, National Public Radio, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, protoplasm, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, self-replication, The Selfish Gene}

Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…

_{Eric H. Anderson
May 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

9}

“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins. 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 ›