Month: August 2023
Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?
“Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism.”
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.
Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box
Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics.
Ecosystems — A Tribute to Intelligent Design, or to Chance and Adaptation?
Thinking about all the species of animals, birds, and fishes, it becomes apparent that each one requires a certain type of food, suitable for its anatomy.
Emergence by Design
The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes.