Fine-tuning in biochemistry

Today, we need to search the roots of Henderson s biocentrism at the molecular level. In fact, fine-tuning in biochemistry is represented by the strength of the chemical bonds that makes the universal genetic code possible. Neither transcription nor translation of the messages encoded in RNA and DNA would be possible if the... 

The problem of how life was created is a fascinating one. Our focus is on looking at life on earth and asking how it works. The lessons we learn provide hints to the answer to the deep and fundamental question pondered by our ancients Was life on earth inevitable Then there are the questions posed by Henderson [ 1 ] Is the nature of our physical world biocentric Is there a need for fine-tuning in biochemistry to provide for the fitness of life in the cosmos - or, even less ambitiously, for life here on earth Surprisingly, as we will show, a physics approach turns out to be valuable for thinking about these questions. 

A follow-up symposium. Water of Life CouMerfactual Chemistry and Fine-Tuning in Biochemistry, took place in Varenna, Italy, in April 2005 a research volume based on that symposium is currently in development. See http //www.templeton.org/archive/wateroflife. 

Chaplin MF. Water s hydrogen bond strength. In Ruth M, Lynden-BeU, Simon Conway M, Barrow JD, Finney JL, Harper CL Jr, eds. In Water of Life Counterfactiud Chemistry and Fine-Tuning in Biochemistry. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 2010 69-86. 

Might flne-tuning in biochemistry be fundamentally different from fine-tuning in physics and cosmology ... 

Creating a perspective for comparing. In Proceedings of the J. Templeton Foundation Biochemistry and Fine-tuning , Harvard University, October 10-12, 2003. 

An increased knowledge of brain biochemistry can assist social workers in learning and understanding how brain cells interact with each other in patterned and characteristic ways. It is estimated that there are more than 100 trillion possible interconnections. The responses that result from these connections are too numerous to count and each is finely tuned, which... 

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