Author: Stephen J. Iacoboni
Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters
In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska.
A New Look at Natural Selection
If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations.
The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why
These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just “the way things are,” not proving anything. But this is not so.
The Elephant in the Science Lab
I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works.
“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask
Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event.