Origin-of-Life Claims: Triple Header or Strike Three?

Extra! Extra! "Researchers may have solved origin-of-life conundrum," a breathless headline announces in Science Magazine, ablaze with artwork of meteors striking the primitive, lifeless earth. Take me out to the ball game! It's a triple-header today!

Game One

Writer Robert F. Service knows that the hometown team, the Darwin Dreamers, have been down on their luck ever since Charles Darwin's pep talk about a "warm little pond."

The origin of life on Earth is a set of paradoxes. In order for...