Tag: Stanley Miller

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, advice, Alexander Oparin, amino acids, Baltimore, biopolymers, building blocks, chemistry, computer languages, Dave Keeling, Deep Ocean Raman In Situ Spectrometer, DNA, education, Edward Anders, Edward T. Peltzer, extraterrestrial life, geology, Gustaf Arrhenius, Harold Urey, homochirality, hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, Klingons, lipid world, Mars, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, ocean chemistry, oceanography, organic chemistry, origin of life, Pope, prebiotic conditions, prebiotic soup, proteins, public school, racemization, RNA, RNA world, Roman Catholicism, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, solar system, Stanley Miller, starches, sugars, surface-based chemistry, theistic evolution, UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Heidelberg, Vulcans}

Interview with Edward Peltzer on the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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A student of Stanley Miller and Jeffrey Bada explains the failure of materialistic origin-of-life scenarios. 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 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Casey Luskin, DNA, early Earth, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Gerald Joyce, information sequence problem, intelligent design, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Robert Shapiro, Scientific Reports, Stanley Miller, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley}

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, seawater, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 22, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. 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, first living cell, Harold Urey, hot springs, 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

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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, Svante Arrhenius, 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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, evolution, Francesco Redi, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), William Harvey}

Considering “Abiogenesis,” an Imaginary Term in Science

_{Neil Thomas
April 11, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the 17th century, medical pioneer Sir William Harvey and Italian scientist Francesco Redi both proved the untenability of spontaneous generation. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, American Geophysical Union, biochemists, Charles Thaxton, computer model, electrons, evolution, flasks, Geophysical Research Letters, Harold Urey, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, lightning, Miller-Urey experiment, Signature in the Cell, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, Zombie Science (book)}

Zombie Science: Miller-Urey Experiment Is Back from the Dead, Barely

_{David Coppedge
March 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scientifically speaking, the Miller experiment was a non-starter. Then when the atmosphere they used was called into question, the icon was doubly dead. Read More ›

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Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atmosphere, biology textbooks, early Earth, Eric Anderson, experiments, Harold Urey, ID the Future, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, podcast, Stanley Miller, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago}

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

_{Science and Culture
January 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Read More ›