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MOLO RNA world
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Information and Life’s Origin — A Retrospective View

Unguided natural processes, according to the generalized Second Law, cannot systematically increase the information content of a closed system over time. Read More ›
hydrothermal vents
Photo: Hydrothermal vents, by NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate

Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell. Read More ›
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New ID Book Zeroes in on Evolution’s Zero-Probability Problem

Eric Anderson explores the challenges of building a self-replicating 3-D printer, and the light this sheds on the origin-of-life community’s search for their Holy Grail. Read More ›
Stanley-Miller
Photo: Stanley Miller of Miller-Urey fame, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

Many scientists and professors who are outside boutique origin-of- life circles have been led astray by researchers’ claims and the subsequent press. Read More ›
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Averick
Photo: A phony perpetual motion machine, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, by Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Averick Takes on the “God of the Gaps” Objection

He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Read More ›

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