Origin of Life: Folded Proteins, Twisted Conclusions, Cooked Schemes… It all supports evolution?

FEATURED IMAGE: THE REPLICATION OF DNA.  NOTE THAT EACH DIFFERENT COLORED BLOB IS A THREE DIMENSIONAL PROTEIN MACHINE DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO DO A JOB IN THE REPLICATION PROCESS.  EACH PROTEIN THAT BINDS TO THE DNA IS ENCODED BY THE DNA.   Origin of life researchers generally search for extreme environments that are rare or certainly atypical […]

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Ingredients for the Origin of Life: Meteor Rocks, Acid, Heat, Cold, Time, and Tortured Minds.

Is there no end to the madness?  Some new attempt at producing an inorganic energy source by which life had a jump-start in the make-believe prebiotic soup of earth is amazingly newsworthy[i].  Jargon like “may have solved a key puzzle” and “suggests this could be the missing link between geology and biology” and “rechargeable chemical […]

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Organic Molecules Survive for 350 Million Years?

Breaking news in the science of paleontology!  Organic (living) molecules have been found in several fossilized species of marine sea lilies (Figure 1).  The fossilized crinoids (sea lilies) are found throughout the U.S. Midwest sedimentary rock but the current discovery was found in Australia (Fig. 2).  The surprise to the discoverers was that these fossils […]

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