Tag: Miller-Urey experiment

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Doubt, digital code, DNA, Hoover Institution, James Tour, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Peter Robinson, primordial soup, Rice University, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, Watson and Crick}

The Unsolved Mystery of Life’s Origin: Stephen Meyer and James Tour

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 4, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How did life originate? For decades, many scientists clung to “primordial soup” models. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, base pairs, bioRxiv, early Earth, Elizabeth Pennisi, evolution, GENCODE, genes, genetic code, genome, Hospital for Sick Children, human body, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, junk DNA, Miller-Urey experiment, mRNA, proteins, Research, RNA, Science (journal), transcripts, University of Arizona, University of Würzburg}

Dark Proteome Information Content Skyrockets

_{David Coppedge
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

There could be a five-fold increase in the number of proteins coded in what was formerly called non-protein-coding DNA. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dave Farina, debates, James Tour, Miller-Urey experiment, murder, police, pop culture, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, Rice University, Twitter, violence, YouTube videos}

From Professor Dave, This Sounds Like Incitement to Violence

_{David Klinghoffer
May 25, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences

2}

If you're enjoying the certainty that you've triumphed in a debate, you don't then, even in a weird "just kidding" way, post fantasies about murder. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adenine, ATP synthase, evolution, genetic information, glycolysis, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, Krebs cycle, Miller-Urey experiment, Nick Lane, PLOS Biology, protocells, University College London}

Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning

_{David Coppedge
October 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Michael Behe described how he attended a conference to hear Nobel laureate John Walker, the world’s expert on ATP synthase, explain how it might have evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ammonia, atmosphere, building blocks, carbon dioxide, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), gases, methane, Miller-Urey experiment, monomers, NASA, Nick Lane, primordial soup, Science (journal), University College London}

A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, cosmogony, Genesis, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Tom Wolfe}

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

_{Neil Thomas
August 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinian theory, evolution, evolutionary biology, Harold Urey, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, materialism, microbes, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, nature, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment

_{Neil Thomas
April 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

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"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Carl Sagan, DNA, double helix, early Earth, Francis Crick, Harold Urey, James Watson, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Nobel Prize, proteins, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

_{Neil Thomas
April 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›