Month: June 2016
Foundational Question: Is Biology Engineering?
Look at the photo at the top of this post, and ask yourself: What’s the best-engineered object in view?
Origin-of-Life Research: Start Over
Chemical evolution theories are so unsuccessful, it’s time to go back to square one. So say two theorists in America’s leading science journal.
How the Body Controls Its Calcium
Without any one of the necessary systems being in place, the whole would fail and calcium control would be lost.
Fetal Stem Cells — Another Case Study in Media Hype
This is a warning about investor trawling, media hype, and the realities attendant to regenerative medicine.
The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy
Everything in ethics, every single weighty cultural issue I can think of, hinges on the question of biological origins.