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

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
James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Source
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Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning

acetyl phosphate, adenine, ATP synthase, baseball diamond, biology, Evolution, genetic information, gluconeogenesis, glycolysis, hydrothermal vents, Intelligent Design, John E. Walker, Krebs cycle, Lehigh University, metabolic process, Michael Behe, Miller-Urey experiment, Nick Lane, PLOS Biology, protocell, protometabolism, purine, referee, University College London, World Magazine
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.  Source
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