abiogenesis

IMHO nothing really new but an interesting speculative summery. https://www.sciencealert.com/study-suggests-life-emerges-rapidly-in-earth-like-conditions Original article here: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/however-life-got-started-on-earth-it-didnt-take-long The Drake equation is...

I often see people here and elsewhere who argue that the creationists are not entirely wrong when they think that abiogenesis is a part of evolution. One poster said that it felt like a "cop out" when we distinguish between the two. I wonder why? I cannot see any reason why abiogenesis can be...

The hypothesis that rocks, water and carbon dioxide formed life has gone mainstream enough to make it to the PBS series Nova: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/life-rocky-start.html Right at this moment, it may still be possible to watch a repeat broadcast on your cable system or even your...

Anybody who hasn't had or wanted to spare the time to get Nick Lanes' "The Vital Question" from the library and read it can now read a much shorter article discussing the same issues. It's the "Life force - Why energy shapes evolution" article of the VOLUME 37 NO 5 October 2015 issue of the...

That is the title of Nick Lane's new book, that comes out in July in the U.S. and Canada but has been out since late April in the U.K. I have a copy of that version if anybody wants to bring up issues. I tried to give my best shot at summarizing the key issues in the best science and medicine...

It occurred to me in my post to the "Why do you believe naturalism to be the best explanation for our existence" thread, that how one defines life might influence what mechanism one sees as being most important in its origin. I think it has influenced biologist and geneticist Jack Szostak, but...

Late in December 2012 there were two independent papers published that make a metabolism first abiogenesis ever more plausible over genes first scenarios. This first one, "The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics", is a paper by Nick Lane, 2010 Royal Society winner for "Life Ascending: The Ten...

Continuation of title: Early-Earth Cells Modeled to Show How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA Just found this interesting. Anyone get Nature Chemistry able to give us a more in-depth run down of the significance of this? The gaps keep closing, which I personally find satisfying...

Not entirely sure how this is done but I seem to remember some sort of experiment where someone created very basic forms of life in a test tube from just a mixture of matter. How true is this statement I found?

Another interesting theory for abiogenesis: ICE

The concept of "replicator" is found and used in almost all presentations that discuss mechanisms of evolution. However, in the opinion of the writer, this concept of replicator is actually unnecessary and is, in many ways, very misleading; I would even say that it is ultimately undefined. I...

I haven't reached 15 posts yet, hence no direct links. I've left the http off. The August volume of the online Journal of Cosmology is on Abiogenesis: journalofcosmology.com/Contents10.html The most readable to me is "Chance or Necessity? Bioenergetics and the Probability of Life" at this...

I had a reason to review the current state of the science of abiogenesis recently and it seemed worth sharing. 2009:The Origin of Life A case is made for the descent of electrons The science of our origins is moving right along. The Talk Origins page on abiogenesis was apparently last...

As some readers may recall, I am interested in developing a general form of evolutionary theory that is data-centred rather than gene-centred. I have christened this form of evolutionary theory "Bioepistemic Evolution." Initially I used this new form of evolutionary theory to give an account of...

I had a pretty good high-school education in the natural sciences, and in recent years have been learning more about them; but I am just not any sort of expert in them and do not expect ever to be one. This presents a problem when some religious type starts putting forward creationist canards in...

Well, according to this article there is overwhelming evidence that Earth was seeded by a comet. Here is the paper the article is talking about: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7174908 I can only access the abstract, but the whole thing appears to be...

Scientist Craig Venter Has Created Artificial Life. 'Luthon64

Thanks to an infusion of knowledge on the subject, (including books recommended here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102459 ), I believe I have a relatively good, amateur's grasp of abiogenesis. I couldn't help but notice a common pattern in all of the sources...

Abiogenesis takes another step forward with a plausible pathway for self-assembly of RNA from "non-living" material. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14rna.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science Not the complete picture but another brick to add to a growing wall of evidence for abiogenesis.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/replicatingrna.html Life - a series of complicated, competing chemical reactions. Ain't it grand? Athon

In another thread, I asked JEROME DA GNOME to clarify what he believed about the origins of life and the universe. His response was: I replied: He replied: At that point I decided to start a new thread, rather than derail the existing one. I would appreciate it if a moderator could step in if...

Over the past couple of years, I have read a lot of books about evolutionary biology. A lot of books. But, now I have come to realize that the science investigating the earliest beginnings of life, is not a particular area I have gained very much knowledge about. I got the general concepts...

Biochemical chirality is the fact that living things are made mainly from left or right handed molecules but, generally, not both. For example, proteins use L-amino acids and only a few D amino acids are found in nature. The origin of this chiral specificity is now recognized as a very...

The origin of life is a crucial part (if not the most important question) of the Theist/Atheist debate. Yet I contend that most atheists are not aware that all life (the blue whales, the insects, the elephants, the octopuses, the trees in the redwood forests, the butterflies, the cactus, the...

I have started this thread as a platform for discussing of abiogenesis and, and a place to facilitate a raging debate between John Hewitt and I, on the nature of fundamental replicators (which may have a significant impact on abiogenesis). In seeking a compromise between evidence cited for...

evolution seems to provide a mechanism whereby single celled organisms can turn into intelligent forms. but how did life begin? the experiments involving lightning and chemicals only produce complex molecules. if they added high-energy cosmic rays, would that knock aroound enough molecules to...

PLEASE: Read the OP first. It occurs to me, seeing yet more fundies explaining why evolution is bunkum, that they come from the same pod as "No plane" CTists - lacking facts, behaving irrationally and refusing to accept evidence. Now, there are lots of places where scientific evolutionary...

Science breakthrough. The transplant of an entire genome. It sounds like they have a production technique... it only worked 1 out of 150,000 tries. That doesn't sound like one scientist at a microscope changing 1 bacterium at a time. It promises a new tomorrow... manufactured life...

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/05-07OriginofLifeKM-.asp Was in the USA Today, today, but seems it was the 20th that he actually passed away. Wasn't able to cook up a person, but he did make a pretty good attempt! :) Anyway, RIP and all that stuff.

Hot on the heels of the article I just pointed out in the Toronto Star that was (mostly) favourable of evolution comes this from Scientific American: Link is at sciam dot com, /article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=9952573C-E7F2-99DF-32F2928046329479 Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat...