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Crystal Mysticism Invades Astrobiology

March 20, 2009

Mystical ideas about the life-giving power of crystals usually go with New Age movies and storefronts. Science is above all that, right? Then what is a reader supposed to think of this opening line by Leslie Mullen on Space.com? One of the greatest mysteries about the origin of life is how the necessary ingredients consistently […]

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Leslie Orgel’s Last Testament: Pigs Don’t Fly, and Life Doesn’t Just Happen

January 26, 2008

Leslie Orgel's last written article before his death shows no patience for hypothetical scenarios for the origin of life.

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OOL on the Rocks

February 15, 2007

Robert Shapiro demolishes the RNA World just in time for Leslie Orgel to demolish Shapiro's own myth. Ashes, ashes; they all fall down.

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Astrobiology: Follow the Money

January 7, 2005

To date, astrobiology remains, as George Gaylord Simpson once quipped, “an area of study without a known subject.” Yet it is one of the hottest research areas within NASA. A renowned origin-of-life researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dr. Jeffrey Bada, found out why when he read the new book The Living Universe: NASA and […]

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Origin-of-Life Expert Jokes about Becoming a Creationist

November 5, 2004

Chemist admits problems in chemical evolution are so hard, he is tempted to become a creationist.

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Pop Goes the Fatbubble Theory for the Origin of Life

September 3, 2004

This weird theory pops faster than the bubbles it describes as our ancestors.

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