Did Comets Carry Prebiotic Materials to Early Earth? May 12, 2016 Even though chemical impurities in snow and ice can be detrimental to existing life on Earth, astrobiologists think that chemical contaminants in icy comets... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Ultraviolet Light Illuminates More Problems for Chemical Evolution March 17, 2016 When my wife and I visited Australia, our hosts warned us repeatedly to use sunscreen. The thinning ozone layer near the South Pole intensifies... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Phosphorus No Help for Chemical Evolution February 8, 2016 In their attempts to support a naturalistic origin-of-life scenario, these researchers have demonstrated the critical role an intelligent agency must play in life's genesis... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Weird Life: Could Life Be Based on Silicon? April 30, 2015 Could alien life be based on the element silicon rather than on carbon? This idea has been seriously proposed in the scientific literature for... Publications by Read
How Did God Create the First Life on Earth? June 12, 2014 When I'm out speaking on behalf of RTB, one question I often hear is, how did God create the first life? Did He just... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Hypernaturalism and the Origin of Life June 12, 2014 For nearly six decades the scientific community has labored to explain the origin of life via chemical evolution. Researchers have identified chemical routes that... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Origin-of-Life Experiment: Going from Bad to Worse July 8, 2013 Stanley L. Miller's legendary spark-discharge experiments, conducted in the 1950s, were considered the first experimental validation of chemical evolutionary scenarios for the origin of... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
DNA and Proteins’ Excellent Adventure March 8, 2013 At first look, this scene might not seem relevant to a discussion on the origin of life. But when you’re trying to explain mutually... Blog by Read
Homochirality and the Origin of Life November 7, 2011 Life requires homochirality in certain molecules. When scientists failed to demonstrate a naturalistic explanation for homochirality via terrestrial chemical pathways, they turned to astronomical... Publications by Hugh Ross Read
TNRTB Classic: Explaining Homochirality October 13, 2011 On Monday I wrote about researchers’ recent attempt to account for the origin of homochirality. This latest work is just one in a series... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
One More Crack in the Mirror: Misplaced Hope in the Latest Model for the Origin of Life October 9, 2011 Many of us are told that compelling scientific evidence exists for the emergence of life from inanimate matter via chemical evolution (also known as... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
A Failed Comeback: Efforts to Reclaim Stanley Miller’s Legacy, Part 2 (of 2) June 1, 2011 Last week, I retold the story of chemist Stanley Miller’s sudden rise to fame with the success of his spark-discharge experiments in the 1950s.... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read