07Nov 2023 by Post

Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not

accuracy, biological information, chemical evolution, code, DNA, Evolution, genome, information, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Long Story Short, Lynn Helena Caporale, origin of life, researchers, self-replication, The Implicit Genome, YouTube videos
It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold. Source
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29May 2023 by Post

Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

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It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details. Source
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01May 2023 by Post

Long Story Short Debunks Another Tall Tale of Self-Replication

animation, Center for Chemical Evolution, classrooms, Education, Evolution, Gerald Joyce, Intelligent Design, Jon Perry, Long Story Short, materialism, NASA, National Science Foundation, Next Generation Science Standards, NGSS, nucleotides, origin of life, prebiotic Earth, researchers, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Stated Clearly, tar, template, triphosphate, YouTube videos
While posing as an educational video with scientific authority, this offering from Stated Clearly conveniently sweeps well-established science under the rug. Source
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16Feb 2023 by Post

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

biochemical language, Chemistry, Discovering Intelligent Design, Evolution, information, information sequence problem, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Jack Szostak, Long Story Short, machines, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, origin of information, origin of life, programming code, proteins, replication, RNA, RNA world, Scientific American, self-replicating molecule, specified information, Stanley Miller, transcription, translation, UC San Diego
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. Source
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15Feb 2023 by Post

Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

atheists, biology, boiling water, cancer, cellular replication, Charles Darwin, enzymes, Evolution, Evolution News, Intelligent Design, Long Story Short, magnesium, metabolism, mutations, nucleotide monomers, nucleotides, origin of life, replication, Richard Dawkins, RNA, RNA world, RNA-Peptide World, RNAse E, self-replicators, Spiegelman’s Monster, Tomonori Totani
You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Source
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27Jul 2022 by Post

High Energy: Long Story Short Addresses “Energy Harnessing” and Life’s Origin

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Everyone knows that maintaining life requires energy, but most do not appreciate the intricate steps required to harness it. Source
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30Nov 2021 by Post

Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

amino acids, biology, biopolymers, chirality, denaturation, DNA, Donna Blackmond, Evolution, formamide, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, Intelligent Design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, origin of life, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, toluene, wet/dry cycles, YouTube videos
Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.  Source
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