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Author
James Tour

Date
January 30, 2023

Categorized
Science

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amino acids, chemical evolution, early Earth, Eric Metaxas, Evolution, graphene, James Tour, molecular cars, nanotechnology, origin of life, paralyzed rats, philosophical materialism, prebiotic chemistry, Rice University, severed spinal cords, simply life, Socrates in the City, spinal cord injuries, synthetic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, unexamined life}

James Tour Talks Nanotech at Socrates in the City

_{James Tour

January 30, 2023

Science}

Today’s ID the Future features the first part of a conversation between James Tour and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on Tour’s astonishing work in nanotechnology and on the topic “How Did Life Come into Being?” Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading nano-scientists. This event took place at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, and is presented here with permission of Eric Metaxas. Here in Part 1, Tour explains some of the inventions coming out of Tour’s Rice University lab, including molecular cars and astonishing graphene Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
September 12, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
abiogenesis, ATP Synthase, cellular repair, Chernobyl, Craig Venter, early Earth, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, fermenter, fungus, God of the gaps argument, homeostasis, Long Story Short, naturalism of the gaps, obligate fermenter, origin of life, positive argument to design, proton gradient, radiation, replication, Rob Stadler, simplest viable life, Stairway to Life}

An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing

_{Rob Stadler

September 12, 2022

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, the latest video in the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first cell have been much simpler than any current cell, making it easier for it to emerge through blind natural forces on the early Earth? Stadler and Anderson surface one big problem with that idea: in experiments to make relatively simple cells even simpler, the cells inevitably become less robust and adaptable. These simpler cells must be coddled to survive. But the first cell on earth would have been anything but coddled. It would have had no source of glucose and Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
abiogenesis, Biological Information, Brian Miller, early Earth, functional organization, Georgia Tech University, high energy, high order, Jeremy England, Justin Brierley, low entropy, minimally complex cell, Non-equilibrium Systems, order, origin of life, Paul Davies, Sara Walker, self-organization, the mystery of life’s origin, Unbelievable}

Dissecting an Unbelievable Conversation about Abiogenesis

_{Brian Miller

September 1, 2021

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future physicist Brian Miller and host Eric Anderson explore a recent conversation between physicists Jeremy England and Paul Davies on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable? radio show. Davies admitted he doesn’t want the origin of life to require divine design, while England argued that his work on non-equilibrium systems offers a promising avenue for explaining the origin of the first life in naturalistic terms. Miller and Anderson demur on both counts. They hold out hope that Davies, having recognized his philosophical bias, will eventually decide to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if doing so has theistic implications. And as for Jeremy England’s approach, Miller says it’s fascinating work but fails to solve the origin-of-life challenge in Read More ›

Couple standing on the beach at sunset are having problems with each other

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 3, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

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abiogenesis, alkaline thermal vents, Biological Information, Brian Miller, cell membrane, DNA, early Earth, entropy, Evolution, Helen Hansma, Intelligent Design, interfering cross reactions, Jack Szostak, Jeremy England, lipid bilayer, mica hypothesis, mica sheets, Michael Russell, natural templating, Nick Lane, origin of life, polymerase, prebiotic chemistry, protocell, raw energy, RNA, RNA World hypothesis}

Brian Miller Talks Star-Crossed RNA Strands and the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller

May 3, 2021

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller continues his conversation with host Eric Anderson. Here they explore more problems facing the idea that life began as strings of RNA. In their discussion of the RNA World Hypothesis and the origin of life generally, they touch on ideas advanced by Jeremy England, Jack Shostak, Nick Lane, Helen Hansma, and others. One of several big problems with the RNA-first hypothesis underscored by Miller and Anderson: For it to have even a slender chance of working, you need prebiotic Earth to generate not one but two information-rich RNA strands, and they somehow need to find each other before falling apart, and do so despite the fact that they aren’t looking for each Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
April 5, 2021

Tagged
abiogenesis, amino acids, cell membrane, cell membrane gates, cell membrane pumps, Craig Venter, devolution, diffusion gradient, E. coli, early Earth, Evolution, gene loss, homeostasis, lipid bubbles, membrane, minimal bacterial genome, minimal cell, minimal organism, origin of life, phospholipid, phospholipid bilayer membrane, pre-biotic chemistry, Proteins, protocells, reverse engineering, ribose operon, Richard Lenski, single-celled organisms}

Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells

_{Rob Stadler

April 5, 2021}

On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Rob Stadler, co-author with Change Tan of The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check. The topic of discussion–protocells. Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution. He further notes that this is widely acknowledged in the origin-of-life community, but those committed to a purely materialistic origin of the first life have a fallback explanation–protocells. That is, early biological structures far simpler than anything we find today. An intriguing hypothesis, but the problems with it, according to Stadler, are legion. Tune in as Stadler and Anderson walk through several lines of evidence that appear to Read More ›

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Author
James Tour

Date
March 10, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
ability to reproduce, abiogenesis, adaptation to evolution, ammonia, atmosphere of the early Earth, Biological Information, carbohydrates, catalysis, cellular life, characteristics of life, chemical evolution, DNA, early Earth, entropy, enzymes, genetic information, homeostasis, homochirality, lipids, metabolism, molecular degradation, nucleic acids, nucleotides, origin of life, panspermia, polysaccharides, Proteins, reducing atmosphere, response to stimuli, RNA, Sugars, synthetic organic chemistry}

James Tour–A Flyover of the Challenges Facing Abiogenesis

_{James Tour

March 10, 2021

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future features the next in a YouTube video series by Dr. James Tour on the origin-of-life problem. Here Tour, a distinguished synthetic organic chemist, lists the characteristics of life and describes some features of the early Earth where life first appeared. Then he provides a fast flyover of the many grave problems of blindly evolving the first living cell from prebiotic materials.