10Apr 2021 by Post

Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin

enzymes, Evolution, experimental conditions, experiments, information, Intelligent Design, investigator interference, investigator intervention, nucleotide sequences, nucleotides, origin of life, polymerase, replication, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, temperature variations
Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions. Source
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04Nov 2020 by Post

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

Aleksandr Oparin, Alexander Marras, Ann Gauger, Argonne National Laboratory, bubbles, Charles Thaxton, Chemistry, coacervates, Darwinian theory, Dean Matthew Tirrell, Elena dos Santos, Encyclopedia Britannica, Evolution, Frankenstein, Geppetto, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, Marxists, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, origin of life, Penn State, Pinocchio, replication, RNA, RNA world, Sam Sholtis, Sidney Fox, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Basel, University of Chicago
Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Source
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