Last-chance-lake-images-haas2024 Type post Author Brian Miller Date September 24, 2026 CategoriesOrigin of LifeScience Reporting Tagged , bases, Canada, David Catling, gatekeepers, intelligent agency, Last Chance Lake, Leslie Orgel, life, Maikel Rheinstädter, McMaster University, metabolism, nucleotides, organic compounds, origin of life, origin-of-life researchers, phosphate, phosphate problem, planetary scientists, primitive earth, reporters, ribose, RNA, RNA world, Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, scientific consensus, self-replicating RNA, Stanley Miller, storytelling, The Origins of Life on the Earth, University of Washington, voodoo science, wishful thinking On Origin of Life, Scientific American Starts Sober, Quickly Relapses into Speculation Brian Miller September 24, 2026 Origin of Life, Science Reporting 6 A proposal by University of Washington planetary scientist David Catling addresses what origin-of-life researchers call the phosphate problem. Read More ›