DragonKing Dark: The mysteries of the origin of life

How did life begin? The prevailing scientific consensus presents us with a primordial soup a few billion years ago which coalesced into life.

But wait: the science is not as settled as you might believe.

There are problems with that model and some leading scientists are challenging it. What even is “life?” Even that definition is not as clear in 2023 as one might think.

On this week’s DragonKing Dark, I will look at some of the latest questions being presented to origin of life researchers. No, we aren’t talking creationism either, but the straightforward science.

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