Category: Origin of Life Theories

Can life spontaneously generate itself from chemicals? Or are detailed instructions required? This episode of Science Uprising investigates the origin of life and claims by scientific materialists like Stephen Hawking that life spontaneously arose from chemicals without any guidance or intelligent design. Be sure to visit https://scienceuprising.com/ to find more videos and explore related articles and books. Experts featured in this episode include James Tour, T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University; Douglas Axe, Maxwell Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology, Biola University and author, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed; and Stephen Meyer, PhD, Director, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute and author, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for…

Self-organization, also called spontaneous order, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when sufficient energy is available, not needing control by any external agent. (Wikipedia) It has been used in support of abiogenesis. Some believe that the specific sequence of amino-acids in proteins can be explained by the self-organization law. Can chemistry explain information in DNA? A critique of self-organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6G2ADJ61GA The third approach that I mentioned for explaining the origin, well explaining anything according to Jacque Minogue is an approach that relies on pure necessity or natural law or what in origin of life studies became known as self-organization. And there have been a number of these theories but perhaps the…

https://youtu.be/A7KOEUbiNvM Where do naturalists, who are not believers, think life originated in the universe? Because we've all got to account for the origin of life from inorganic materials. And the proposals have been really broad and widespread. Lots of proposals have been offered. As a matter of fact some people will say “Well I think it happens in the atmosphere.” Some will say “No, I think it happens in the actual waters of some nature, some place on the planet.” Or they think it happens in some kind of terrestrial form like on clay. I mean I studied every single origin of life theory on this. Some will say “You know what, it happens at the deep sea vents under the terrestrial crust.” Some will say “No, this doesn't work.…