Tag: protocell

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alphabet, amino acids, beta lactamase, Brandeis University, cells, chaperones, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, Gemini, genome, HeliScrew4, helix, improbability, indels, Karl Popper, peptides, PNAS, polypeptides, promissory materialism, protocell, random letters, randomness, razor wire, selective pressure, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supersecondary structure, tandem repeats, The Self and Its Brain, UC San Francisco}

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Read More ›

Single strand ribonucleic acid, RNA research and therapy

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 19, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Cambridge, candor, chemical evolution, chemical processes, early Earth, Edoardo Gianni, England, experiments, intelligent agent, intelligent design, James Tour, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, nucleotide chains, nucleotides, origin of life, physical processes, primer, protocell, QT45, reagents, RNA, RNA replicator, RNA world, Rob Stadler, Science (journal), water}

Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

_{Brian Miller
February 19, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Origin of Life
Planetology
Tagged
, AlphaFold, atmosphere, biochemistry, biological complexity, chance, disorder, entropy, Francis Crick, Imperial College London, informational content, intelligence, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Leslie Orgel, LUCA, molecular assembly, origin of life, panspermia, physical biasing, primitive earth, protocell, Robert E. Endres, universe, water, zircon}

New Paper Argues for the “Unreasonable Likelihood of Being”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 5, 2026

Earth Sciences, Origin of Life, Planetology

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How long did life have to get started? Endres notes that life on earth could not have emerged until after two early global sterilizing impacts. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Carl Sagan, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Crick, groupthink, Imperial College London, Leslie Orgel, Live Science, Lynn Margulis, Medium, National Geographic, Occam’s razor, origin of life, protocell, Star Trek, Star Wars, terraforming, Universe Today}

At Present, the Origin of Life Isn’t a Scientific Question; It’s a Political One

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Some answers are Correct Groupthink but others will get you Canceled. It’s not clear that the current approach will enable many more insights. Read More ›