Interesting stuff.
Social Darwinist neo paganism, eh? Interesting.
bkmk
From the time Earth formed, around 4.56 billion years ago
wild ass guess.
Uh...pardon me energy epochist author person...what chemical mechanism was involved in harnessing the “new” energy sources? How did the organism prevent oxygen from oxidizing any living systems newly evolved chemistry or new membranes, enzyme systems.Fire,a fast oxidizer, usually disintegrates its substrate.Why would slow oxidation be a source of energy but not a source of disruption? Why do we take antioxidant compounds? Why do we use hydrogen peroxide to disinfect wounds?The uv light from sunlight can easily destroy microorganisms...it is used in sterilizing whole “clean” rooms on a commercial and medical basis...it is very useful as a destroyer of life...not a builder...heat also speeds up reactions and many of the reactions lead to disorder more often than order, on average...thats why we use autoclaves to “heat sterilize” different products.uh...pasteurization,cooking food,ring a bell?...pretty graphics though...
I read the entire essay at Nature.
The idea of understanding Evolution from an energy perspective is something I had never clearly thought about before.
Evolutionits believe that matter plus energy plus time equals Life. Life requires information which cannot be created using a random mixture of matter and energy over vast periods of time.
Very interesting article.
Thank you for posting.
have argued that the transition from non-life to life
But, if you don’t like the results you rename it and call it something else:
In the years following Louis Pasteur’s experiment in 1862, the term “spontaneous generation” fell into increasing disfavor. Experimentalists used a variety of terms for the study of the origin of life from non-living materials. Heterogenesis was applied to once-living materials such as boiled broths, and Henry Charlton Bastian proposed the term archebiosis for life originating from inorganic materials. The two were lumped together as “spontaneous generation”, but disliking the term as sounding too random, Bastian proposed biogenesis. In an 1870 address titled, “Spontaneous Generation”, Thomas Henry Huxley defined biogenesis as life originating from other life and coined the negative of the term, abiogenesis, which was the term that became dominant.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
Assuming that life did not parachute in, fully formed, from elsewhere, a number of authors12,13,14,15 have argued that the transition from non-life to life took place in the context of geochemical energy, with the ability to harness sunlight evolving later (Fig. 1). Consistent with this, both phylogenetic16 and biochemical13,17 evidence suggest that the earliest life forms were chemoautotrophs, perhaps living by reacting hydrogen with carbon dioxide and giving off acetate, methane and water13,16. Mounting evidence18,19,20,21,22 suggests that the transition from non-life to life may have taken place before 3.7 Ga—a time from which few rocks remain23.