[LibWhacker]

Sorry, too lazy to edit html today.

[GraceG]

I have no doubt that God encoded a propensity for life into the laws of the universe!

[txnativegop]

What dreams did the parents hold for their child when they named (him?) Attila?

[Fungi]

nonsense.

[YHAOS]

A physical theory of life . . . speaking “broadly.”

BEEP!

[Nervous Tick]

yadda yadda yadda yadda This could mean that under certain conditions yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda

In other words, he's got nuttin'.

My money remains on Yahweh, the Creator. When He speaks, Life results!

[Yosemitest]

I can go two ways on this … from the Bible.
The FIRST is obvious:

" … For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world
are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful;
but became VAIN in their imaginations,
and their foolish heart was darkened.
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE wise,
THEY BECAME FOOLS … "

Then again, I could point to the SECOND and say
that they are searching for HOW God CREATED LIFE where there was NO LIFE (But I seriously doubt that they believe in God) :

" … Behold, the people is one,
and they have all one language;
and THIS they BEGIN to do:
and now NOTHING will be restrained FROM them,
which they have IMAGINED TO
DO … "

I'm pretty sure the FIRST is more applicable than the SECOND.

[reasonisfaith]

“liberate biologists from seeking a Darwinian explanation”

An admission that Darwinism is a burden for the biologists.

[762X51]

Sounds easy enough. Now, go ahead and make me some life Poindexter. I’ll wait.

[I want the USA back]

He has hit upon something. This bears further research.

[reasonisfaith]

“The ‘big hope’ is that he has identified the underlying physical principle driving the origin and evolution of life, Grosberg said.”

And the fact that this “principle” is missing is hardly ever acknowledged.

[Born to Conserve]

I can’t believe the “community” has gotten so stupid they would let this kid take credit for this.

There have been a constant stream of scientists explaining that life is simple the most efficient way of dissipating useable energy into entropic energy.

I guarantee there are thousands of scientists saying “but we already know this!” None the less they will give this kid some kind of award.

Same thing happened back when “punctuated evolution” was “discovered”. It was already known. Duh.

This is what happens when the dumb half are in charge.

[backwoods-engineer]

Apparently, this young snot-nose hasn’t heard of they Miller-Urey experiment and how it was shown for the nonsense it is, or chirality and its consequences for amino acids. Just another supra-materialist in over his head.

[TigersEye]

It makes sense to me. I have long thought that life is the rule not the exception in the universe in general.

[dr_lew]

“Snowflakes, sand dunes and turbulent vortices all have in common that they are strikingly patterned structures that emerge in many-particle systems driven by some dissipative process,” he said.

This could be right out of Ilya Progogine's musings on "Systems driven far from equilibrium". I always thought these were very reasonable ideas, but he tried to build them into something they weren't, that is a coherent theory.

Cf. Horgan's THE END OF SCIENCE, Ilya Prigogine and the end of Certainty pg.216. Also relevant, The Mysterious Origins of Life pg. 138

... "The origin of life is a science writer's dream. It abounds with exotic scientists and exotic theories, which are never entirely abandoned or accepted, but merely go in and out of fashion."

Great book! ( 1996 )

[MHGinTN]

Another day, another fool says in his heart ...

[trebb]

Let me recap - luck had nothing to do with it so it's better than current evolution theories because it is even further from God. Because of the laws, some random clumps will rearrange themselves to become life. vs. some other random events occurring to electrify some random clumps into life.

Don't know why we didn't realize it long ago - perhaps our living clumps hadn't yet reorganized themselves to the point where we could grasp it.

Of course, with the requirement to change in order to dissipate heat more efficiently, one can see that global warming is going to become an even bigger threat.

[M Kehoe]

Did Mr. England explain the light source, or the external energy source? I didn’t see it in the article.

Thanks.

5.56mm

[soycd]

If it is possible, it will happen eventually and forever.

Infinity will have its days.