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Origin of Life

OOL Research ‘May Have’ Fooled Some People
August 13, 2024
...often stressed the importance of homochirality in life. It is a tremendous hurdle for materialist origin-of-lifers to overcome. In this article, reporter Michael Le Page relies on the “may have”...
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Amazing Facts

Archive: Your Model Train Set
February 23, 2024
Model trains in your cells? Yes: read about this and other wonders from 21 years ago. Note: Some embedded links may no longer work. Your Model Train Set 02/25/2003 Model...
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Solar System

Much Ado About Ryugu
March 23, 2023
...cells ensured they were left-handed (L-amino acids). Homochirality in amino acids is diagnostic of life. Second, if an enantiomeric excess of L-amino acids were found in an extraterrestrial source, how...
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Origin of Life

New Model of Chirality Untestable
February 24, 2023
...chance achieving homochirality for a protein in chapter 4. The results were dismal for evolution, even when granted very generous concessions for a certain amount of preference for one hand...
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Origin of Life

How to Charge Your Smartphone on a Grill
September 14, 2022
...mention of ATP, energy, information or molecular machines. Homochirality and chiral-induced spin selectivity: A new spin on the origin of life (Bloom et al., PNAS 10 Aug 2022). To work,...
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Human Body

One Wrong-Handed Amino Acid Can Cause Vertigo
August 11, 2018
The rocks in your head that give you a sense of balance are finely tuned to spiral in a certain way. We’ve mentioned chirality before in articles on the origin...
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Origin of Life

Another RNA World ‘Missing Link’ Experiment Misses the Point
January 9, 2018
...ribose would form (homochirality). They did not indicate how nucleobases would form. They assumed the existence of ribose and nucleosides. They did not specify how phosphate groups would become associated...
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SETI

Space Aliens: Evolutionists’ Imaginary Friends
June 15, 2017
Those who believe life emerges from atoms pretend to talk to companions they don’t even know exist. It’s common in atheist circles to mock believers in God as having an...
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Media

Big Science Lies About Chirality in Space
June 15, 2016
...homochirality problem. Update 6/15/16: Rowena Ball at The Conversation admits the problem, but offers a speculative solution that cannot get pure homochirality. It also fails the test of finding chiral...
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Origin of Life

Amino Acids Unlikely to Survive on Mars
June 9, 2016
UV radiation quickly degrades amino acids on most Martian minerals, a new study shows. Using the “Open University Mars Chamber” in the UK, four British scientists watched to see what...
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Physics

Bluffing About Earth's Magnetic Field and Life's Chirality
June 2, 2016
The headlines might make one think evolutionists have finally scaled two monstrous hurdles for their theory. Earth’s Magnetic Field Evolutionary geologists have two big problems with Earth’s magnetic field: (1)...
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Origin of Life

Origin-of-Life Speculation Goes Off the Rails
October 21, 2015
Astrobiologists and their accomplices in the media are finding life everywhere where it isn’t or couldn’t be. Time to call in the science rangers. Fact-Free Fluff Panspermia is back: According...
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Origin of Life

Homochirality: Computers Are Not the Real World
October 14, 2015
...minimal requirements, homochirality appears when self-replication is efficient enough. “There are other models, and they may be correct for the origin of homochirality on earth, if you can prove that...
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Origin of Life

Origin of Life for Dummies
August 1, 2015
Readers can decide if these news stories on the origin of life represent smart science or not. Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle (Science Daily): “Anyone who’s...
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Origin of Life

More Attempts to Explain Chirality
March 17, 2015
...or Impossible?, the problem of homochirality still challenges naturalistic theories for the origin of life. Coppedge showed that the probability of getting a single-hand chain of peptides is vanishingly small....
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