Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Lifes Origins

[Jglisson4096]

Miller-Urey? really?

[thegreeensky]

nice.. very interesting...

[KyleStonehouse]

This first guy to speak before Hazen, is a total, and complete bore. I don't think I have ever seen anyone less interesting with less interesting and relevant things to talk about. My god.

[blair3b]

I think what troubles Hazen most is his insistant protest that what is Natural including all the mechanisms of biomolecule generation through molecular selection including the ordering deterministic and random dynamics is distinct from what he refers to as a God whose image we may be created in. He hasn't dealt with that issue at all... all he has shown is creation is more than a "poof", you are a person.

[blair3b]

I think what troubles Hazen most is his insistant protest that what is Natural including all the mechanisms of biomolecule generation through molecular selection including the ordering deterministic and random dynamics is distinct from what he refers to as a God whose image we may be created in. He hasn't dealt with that issue at all... all he has shown is creation is more than a "poof", you are a person.

[blair3b]

Wonderful lecture ... other than the insistance on answering things that he cannot answer as a scientist. Ok, so if creationists or ID'rs suggest irreduceable complexity in systems as sign of a supernatural force this is flawed itself. Neither would Hazen suggest these complexities suddenly emerged but evolved by natural laws which a scientist seeks to understand. Engineers/scientists seek to use this information in some practical way - but still only establish the structure not the source

[groundzerobuild]

disproving Islam?al quran?

[randyyh]

Dear future presenters around the world and across the land: ALWAYS repeat the question you are being asked for the local and possible external audience. ALWAYS!

[Techra]

very interesting

[alyerart]

Regarding the orchestra example, is this emergent symphony phenomenon a human perception illusion or is there an underlying physical collective emergent phenomenon that can be charecterised or modelled?

Thanks,

PD: stunning conference, congratulations to case wstern reserve for the seminar series of Year of Darwin, I'm going to wtach them all ;)

[ariuszarim]

@alyerart The first one. There's no reason to assume that the laws of physics should support anything beyond the vibration of air, certainly nothing like what you or I perceive. Everything simply is, people attach meaning and purpose to phenomena. Thus, if an orchestra is beautiful, it is because you perceive beauty. Though the idea of an orchestra is an abstraction unto itself. Truly, there is only noise and some of it appeals to people.

[gamesbok]

@ariuszarim Sir Thomas Beecham said that British people don't actually like classical music, but they like the noise it makes.

[geobioplm]

i believe his name is ROBERT Hazen, not Richard Hazen as youtube talk title says. He is a geologist at the Carnegie Inst. in Washington DC.  nice talk.

[wonderist]

Excellent talk. Dr. Hazen is a great presenter.

[swiftedg]

YEAH DARWIN!