Origin of Life Questions and Answers

Overview

• Chemical soup is not your ancestor
• The elusive origin of life
• Fish in the bathtub
• Life from life…or not?
• Loopholes in the evolutionary theory of the origin of life (Semi-Technical)
• The Origin of Life: A Critique of Current Scientific Models (Technical, PDF file)
• The Origin of Life: A Problem for Evolution
• Will scientists create new life forms—and what would it prove?
• Learning the right tricks about life’s origins
  
• Dobzhansky: natural selection cannot explain the origin of first life
• Life’s irreducible structure—Part 1: autopoiesis

How do the laws of statistics and probability describe the evolutionary claim that life came about by chance?

• Could Monkeys Type the 23^rd Psalm? (Semi-technical)
• Monkey madness
• Spontaneous generation and perpetual motion machines (H.P. Yockey)
• Probabilities of randomly assembling a primitive cell on Earth (Technical, Progress in Complexity, Information and Design 1(4), Oct.–Dec. 2002. Author grants billions of years to the evolutionists without question, but shows that even that doesn’t help their cause)
• See also Probabilities

Is evolutionary origin-of-life research truly objective?

• Chemical evolution: based on (blind) faith not fact
• Primeval soup — failed paradigm

What are some scientific problems with the idea that life arose due to ‘chemical evolution’?

• Did cells acquire organelles such as mitochondria by gobbling up other cells? (Semi-technical)
• How Simple Can Life Be?
• Self-replicating Enzymes (Technical)
  (A Critique of some recent evolutionary origin of life models)
• Origin of Life: The Chirality Problem (Technical)
• Origin of life and the chirality problem: Is magnetochiral dichroism the solution? (Technical)
• Origin of Life: The Polymerization Problem (Technical)
• Hydrothermal origin of life? (Technical)
• World record enzymes (Semi-Technical)
• The Primitive Atmosphere (Semi-Technical)
• Evolutionist criticisms of the RNA World conjecture (Technical, by A.G. Cairns-Smith)
• The RNA World: A Critique (Technical, Origins & Design 17(1):9–16, 1996)
• Does ribozyme research prove Darwinian evolution? (response to critic)
• Origin of life: Three-part series by Dr Duane Gish, Ph.D. biochemist, ICR Impact 1976:
  1. Critique of early stage chemical evolution theories
  2. Fox Thermal Model of the Origin of Life
  3. On the Origin of Biological Order

Have scientists been able to create living cells from non-living matter in a lab, as the media claim?

• Creating life from scratch?
• Creating life in a test tube?
• Did Scientists Create Life — or did the Media Create Hype?
• Self-made cells? Of course not! (Cell membranes made in interstellar ice?)
• Origin of life: Instability of building blocks (Technical)
• Why the Miller–Urey research argues against abiogenesis (Semi-technical)
• The Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, online chapters (Technical, off-site)
  • Chapter 7 Thermodynamics of Living Systems
  • Chapter 8 Thermodynamics and the Origin of life
  • Chapter 9 Specifying How Work is to be Done
• The ‘artificial life’ deception

What about Paul Davies’ recent book The Fifth Miracle?

• Origin of Life — the Real Agenda
• Quantum leap of faith (Paul Davies and the origin of life)
• Huff and Bluff: Can ‘quantum magic’ save chemical evolution? (more Davies bluffing on quantum mechanics)

Did life originate in ‘outer space’?

• Life on Mars? Separating fact from fiction
• Mars claims weaken further
• Conclusive evidence for life from Mars? Remember last time!
• Did life come from outer space?
• Proof of life evolving in the universe?
• Life from space? Unlikely — Let’s wait and see
• Life from space? [more on the above]
• Moon microbes? Remember the ‘Life from Mars’
• Sugars from Space? Do they prove evolution? (Semi-technical)
• Did life’s building blocks come from outer space? Amino acids from interstellar simulation experiments? (Semi-technical)
• Nucleic acid bases in Murchison meteorite?
• Panspermia theory burned to a crisp: bacteria couldn’t survive on meteorite
• Extrasolar planets with organic materials