"Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life"
Red flag: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
The paper invents a lexicon, much like Tolkien, then makes the extraordinary claim that elements in the lexicon explain the world as we know it..... without any evidence.
The paper claims that the theory makes predictions ....(p50) "The aminogyre makes some very profound and testable predictions about the specificity of the genetic code and how proteins behave, lengthen and shorten, and fold and unfold in response to physical and biometabolic changes or changes in genetic information content of RNA."
However these predictions appear to be 'theoretical predictions' (p61) only and are not tested in this paper.
And the claim is made that (p65) "Indeed, this theory not only predicts but also proves that the universe is teeming with life."
Now call me picky, but even my undergraduate biochem and science taught me that a theory can certainly make predictions, but it is in the observations that we find the proof. The theory in itself is not a proof .... perhaps the author has made observations of alien life forms that the rest of us have missed out on.
This diagram doesn't really help:
Nor this one, despite the accompanying text.
By all means read the paper in it's entirety
Or just get out your old 1979 copy of James Lovelock's "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth"
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