The Meaning Code | Abiogenesis Reality Check: The Stairway to Life, a new book by Dr. Robert Stadler and Dr. Change Tan @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
I highly recommend you get the book, The Stairway to Life, and save the link to this conversation so that you can go back to it after you have read the book. But even if you haven't read it yet, there is much to commend this conversation.
Rob Stadler (EE and Biomedical Engineering) and Change Tan (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics) join The Meaning Code for an in-depth discussion about some of the technical aspects of The Stairway to Life, as well as the implications for its thesis, both in science and in our personal lives. The book details the requirements necessary to get from chemical elements to biological life and points out the many seemingly insurmountable hurdles in the way.
amazon.com/Stairway-Life-Origin-Life-Reality/dp/1734183705
The unnatural aspect of much of life
Chirality
Paradox of Water
Spiegelman's monster
The fragility of RNA
Eigen's Paradox
Linkage
The misnomer of junk DNA
The abuse of science.
DNA requires a transcription method, but the transcription machinery resides in the DNA
DNA self-repair mechanisms
Essential genes
The 3 pillars of biodiversity: similarities, discontinuities, modularities
The misdirection of science that avoids uncomfortable truths
The Forest of Life
I highly recommend you get the book, The Stairway to Life, and save the link to this conversation so that you can go back to it after you have read the book. But even if you haven't read it yet, there is much to commend this conversation.
Rob Stadler (EE and Biomedical Engineering) and Change Tan (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics) join The Meaning Code for an in-depth discussion about some of the technical aspects of The Stairway to Life, as well as the implications for its thesis, both in science and in our personal lives. The book details the requirements necessary to get from chemical elements to biological life and points out the many seemingly insurmountable hurdles in the way.
amazon.com/Stairway-Life-Origin-Life-Reality/dp/1734183705
The unnatural aspect of much of life
Chirality
Paradox of Water
Spiegelman's monster
The fragility of RNA
Eigen's Paradox
Linkage
The misnomer of junk DNA
The abuse of science.
DNA requires a transcription method, but the transcription machinery resides in the DNA
DNA self-repair mechanisms
Essential genes
The 3 pillars of biodiversity: similarities, discontinuities, modularities
The misdirection of science that avoids uncomfortable truths
The Forest of Life
