Reading Time: 9 minutes Logic of Science, which looks like a really interesting blog over here, gave me permission to repost this good synopsis of theists’ approach to abiogenesis in the context of the sort of Goddidit Argument from Ignorance we so often see, and have seen here from some commenters. Here is the summary, and thanks again: “Where […]
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Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?
Reading Time: 4 minutes This has come from the University of California Santa Cruz: For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the forbidding landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia looking for clues to how ancient microbes could have produced the abundant stromatolites that were discovered there in […]
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How Life May Have First Emerged On Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment
Reading Time: 4 minutes Apr. 4, 2013 — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.