TNRTB Classic: Looking Beyond Earth

TNRTB Classic: Looking Beyond Earth

On Monday, we saw one way naturalists are looking beyond Earth to explain—independent of a supernatural Creator—the origin of life. For this week’s classic TNRTB I recommend reviewing my article “Could Impacts Jump-Start the Origin of Life?” for a critical assessment of one research team’s attempts to use both terrestrial and extraterrestrial solutions to offer a strictly naturalistic account for life’s emergence.