Primordial Pac-Man as moving oil droplets hint at life’s origin, according to New Scientist, 23 January 2011, p8 and 5 March 2011, p8-9. Researchers have injected oil drops with reactive chemicals which lower the oil’s surface tension and results in moving the oil drops forward. The droplets can even negotiate a maze if the entrance […]
Tag: abiogenesis
Primeval Soup Re-Brewed
Primeval soup re-brewed, as reported in Scientific American, 28 March 2007. Jeffrey Bada of Scripps Institute of Oceanography, California, has revisited the famous “origin of life” experiment made famous by Stanley Miller 1953. Miller’s experiment produced amino acids, which are essential building blocks for living cells, by exposing a mixture of methane and ammonia to […]
Wet Mars Theory Dries Up
Wet Mars theory dries up, according to articles in ABC News in Science and BBC News 10 September 2012 and Nature Geoscience online 9 September 2012. Satellites equipped with infrared sensors orbiting Mars have detected clay minerals known as phyllosilocates on the Martian surface. Clay is formed by the weathering of rocks by liquid water, […]
Origin of Life Prize
A million dollars could be yours if you can publish, in a peer reviewed scientific journal, an explanation of the origin of life that does not break any physical laws. This offer is being made by an organisation called The Origin of Life Foundation ww.us.net/life Editorial Comment: We are sure God could submit Genesis 1 […]