Energy Harnessing: An Achilles Heel for Origin of Life

Episode 1646 September 07, 2022 00:26:01
Energy Harnessing: An Achilles Heel for Origin of Life
Intelligent Design the Future
Energy Harnessing: An Achilles Heel for Origin of Life

Sep 07 2022 | 00:26:01

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Show Notes

Origin-of-life specialist Rob Stadler joins today’s ID the Future to discuss a new Long Story Short science video short. The video investigates a special problem that faces all naturalistic origin-of-life scenarios: To be viable, a cell must have sophisticated machinery, including ATP synthase, to turn raw energy into constructive energy. But how could prebiotic chemicals harness raw energy on the way to evolving into a viable self-reproducing cell without first having the sophisticated machinery to harness raw energy and convert it to useful work? Are the energy sources that have been proposed for chemical evolution realistic? In his conversation with host Eric Anderson, Stadler argues that, no, they aren’t. This isn’t the sort of thing that mindless natural processes can Read More ›

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