ENST: Heterochirality Kills
May 9, 2025
...homochirality in living things, but no one had tested what happens when they force a gene to manufacture right-handed amino acids. The results were not pretty. I wrote about this...
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RNA World Suffers a Backhand Blow
November 26, 2024
...an imaginary RNA World. NASA tells about RNA’s connection to another profound mystery: the origin of homochirality (single-handed amino acids used in proteins; see our online book ch. 3). NASA:...
Archive: Eugenics, Sprites, Viruses, Mars, Rafting Rodents, More
October 11, 2024
Here are some of the stories we were reporting in mid-October 2001. Note: some embedded links may no longer work. New Eugenics Movement Underway, Claims Historian 10/12/2001 In this month’s...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...