Category: Origin of life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhuxg3WRfg We've shown that DNA is actually the software of life. It's totally interchangeable between the digital world and the biological world. The DNA code itself is so digital, is so almost exactly like a confusion tape. Scientists have come to the amazing conclusion that our bodies contain digital code. In fact Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, tweeted “DNA is more advanced than any software ever created.” Think about it. A program or code is written by someone who is very smart. The more complex the code, the more intelligent the author has to be. If our DNA code is more complex than any man-made software, where did it come from? Is it possible it was authored without an author, programmed without a programmer? Materialists think so, through Neo-Darwinism,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivgQFIST1g Mutation - it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. Mutation is a critical ingredient in the recipe for evolution. Mutation generates variation, differences between individuals. Are mutations really the key to our evolution? Think about it. In real life, genetic mutations don't create super powers, they create super challenges. Sometimes those mutations are even life-threatening. That's the reality. Yet we're told that random mutations with guidance from natural selection invented and genetically engineered every feature of every living organism changes. Evolutionary biologists claim that random mutations accumulating overtime ultimately produced life's features. If this is the case, zillions of chance mutations over the history of life led to the invention of flight…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEZi5A6HCWs Because if you actually look at experimental results, there’s no reason to think that one can modify fundamentally the form of life by changing DNA. Mutations definitely have effects and there are some organisms that have been studied so exhaustively we really know all the effects that mutations have. The poor fruit fly drosophila melanogaster is one of these that’s been studied for many years in laboratories and mutations have been cataloged ad infinitum. And they do all kinds of horrible things to these fruit flies. Many of them do nothing, some of them kill the fruit fly and some of them deform the fruit fly. You can get fruit flies that have no wings or that have legs coming out of their head instead of antennae. All kinds…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zOxFFiVY1A There’s a problem, and it doesn’t matter if you’re looking at the human genome or the chimpanzee genome or any other genome. And the problem is that the information is degrading and mutations are building up in populations over time. So I’ve been studying genetic entropy for the last thirteen years, and it’s a really profound problem, and it’s something widely acknowledged by geneticists, and it is the problem that bad mutations accumulate in the human genome, and this is best illustrated by just considering it on a personal level. In your body or in my body, we have about three new mutations every time a cell divides. So this is sobering because it’s the reason we die. And so the reason that we get old and all of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiERuDeKH8 There are a number of problems with the RNA world and I'm happy to speak about them all in the question and answer time. I have an extensive chapter about this in the book. It's interesting to note that people who are very much in the forefront of the origin of life studies are now saying that the we now need a pre-RNA world because the RNA world is so fraught with difficulty. But for the purposes of my talk, I want to just highlight one of those difficulties and it is again an information problem. The RNA world envisions an RNA molecule capable of copying itself. Ribozyme engineers, scientists are working very hard to try to get RNA to do the things that we hope it would do…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQQD0KNOis Where does life come from? This is one of the most important questions humanity has ever posed. And the scientific answer is: we don’t entirely know. You might think that cracking DNA’s genetic code should have explained life’s origins. And it definitely helped—-thanks to our understanding of DNA, we can map out the history of evolution all the way back to single celled life. But that’s where we’re stuck. The problem is, DNA is a great way to store information, but it doesn’t do much else—-cells rely on other molecules like proteins to replicate, grow, and survive. Proteins, on the other hand, work great as molecular machines to keep cells alive and healthy, but they can’t store information or copy themselves—-they need DNA for that. So we have a…