Amino Acids

Is Homochirality a Problem for the Origin of Life?

March 22, 2023

Question of the Week: Atheists keep telling me that homochirality is not a problem for naturalistic models for life’s origin. How do you respond? My...

Origin of Life & Astrobiology

by Hugh Ross Read

Have Astronomers Found Life’s Building Blocks?

August 15, 2022

For at least five decades, proponents of a naturalistic origin of life have been searching for evidence of the RNA world hypothesis. The RNA...

Biochemistry

by Hugh Ross Read

Is the “Hand of God” Evident in Life’s Origin?

March 2, 2020

How did life on Earth begin? Does an experimenter’s intervention reveal the “hand” that made life?

Biochemistry

by Hugh Ross Read

Is the Optimal Set of Protein Amino Acids Purposed by a Mind?

October 9, 2019

As a graduate student and a postdoc, I spent countless hours in the lab doing research. Part of my work involved performing biochemical assays—laboratory...

Biochemistry

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Natural Source of Life’s Homochiral Molecules?

April 30, 2018

When we hear someone say “on the other hand,” we know we are about to hear an alternative perspective. Every debate has two sides,...

Origin of Life & Astrobiology

by Hugh Ross Read

Protein Amino Acids Form a “Just-Right” Set of Biological Building Blocks

February 21, 2018

Like most kids, I had a set of Lego building blocks. But, growing up in the 1960s, the Lego sets were nothing like the...

Biochemistry

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read