This video link will be removed from here in a week... Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart interviews Ph.D. in organic chemistry Dan Reynolds. After nearly three decades in the pharmaceutical industry (mostly at GlaxoSmithKline) and a quarter century in creation work with TASC, Dr. Reynolds talks to us about abiogenesis, RNA World, and the just updated 1984 bestseller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin by a biochemist, a geochemist, and a materials scientist. The 2020 edition has guest chapters including by synthetic chemist James Tour and RSR friend Stephen Meyer. The guys discuss: the stall within the natural origins community; the origin of biological information in proteins, DNA, and RNA; complex specified information; the ruthlessness of chance vs the probabilistic resources of the universe; and the dead end of a proposal called RNA World. And to help with our March 2020 telethon goal of $40,000, please consider calling us at 1-800-8Enyart or above just click on the store or here at kgov.com/store! And, from rsr.org/abiogenesis: NASA Admits Water is a Problem for the Origin of Life For the main reason life cannot arise naturally, the inability of the physical laws to produce a code, see our Dawkins 3-to-1 Challenge, below. And as for needing just the right chemicals, they have that in quintillions of dead organisms that litter the globe in every state of decomposition. But regarding water and abiogenesis... :) * Dear NASA, Thanks For Taking Our Call: During a prestigious science conference in Germany, a Science editor submitted a question from Real Science Radio to a NASA astrobiologist regarding water being an enemy, and not an asset, to the supposed natural origin of life from inanimate matter. So while the left was distracted with Trump, here at RSR we quietly snuck up to their perimeter and lobbed in a truth bomb. Bob Enyart and Fred Williams air the audio of news editor Tim Appenzeller asking the question, and then they listen to the response from senior “astrobiologist” Dr. Mary Voytek. Evolutionists often present their problems as though they were evidence for their theory (as for example with sexual reproduction, and sometimes, like with the famed anti-creationist Eugenie Scott, even forget what the word "problem" means). RSR question asked of NASA during AAAS event in Germany * DARMSTADT, Germany (RSR) July 17, 2018: During this major AAAS event, at 1:41:50 into this high profile event, the news editor of Science, moderator Tim Appenzeller, presented to NASA senior astrobiologist Dr. Mary Voytek RSR's Water Challenge regarding something NASA has never publicly acknowledged, that water presents a serious problem in trying to get life's compounds to arise naturally. * Transcript of NASA/Science Discussion of Water as an Abiogensis Problem: Appenzeller: "The question is from Bob, an independent science reporter. 'To Dr. Voytek, rather than an asset, isn’t water the enemy of prebiotic molecules? It’s the universal solvent and outside of a living organism, water dissolves life’s building blocks like amino acids, sugars like RNA and DNA, various kinds of carbohydrates, and other polymers. Shouldn’t this chemical challenge be more openly acknowledged in astrobiology?' I guess this assumes it is not [more openly] acknowledged." Voytek: "I think it's acknowledged." [RSR: Where? RSR believes this is the first time in NASA's history that this has been acknowledged in any non-technical, public forum. Is this acknowledged in any of NASA's public education web articles, videos, etc.?] Voytek: "I'm not exactly, I think that's one of the biggest challenges we have is understanding the evolution from simple compounds that can be made abiotically towards more organized and more highly functional biomolecules that are important for life. I guess I don't understand [the question]?  Appenzeller: "So water is, water is a challenge, for how these molecules survive?" Voytek: "Oh, because of water? Sorry, I guess I didn't understand..." Appenz