Category: Life Sciences
Life on Mars! Again!
Perhaps with all the budget debates in Congress, NASA now fears budget cuts more than once a year, necessitating semi-annual life-on-Mars stories.
Privileged Planet: Dartmouth Physicist on the Surprising Fact of Complex Life, on Earth or Anywhere
This interestingly turns Steve Meyer’s argument in Signature in the Cell on its head. Let’s assume we get the first, simple life as a free gift.
Richard Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiments with E. coli and the Origin of New Biological Information (Updated)
Dennis Venema’s argument collapses into this: “if Darwinian evolution can do anything, then ID is wrong.” But this is not how we test ID, for ID readily allows that natural selection and random mutation can effect some changes in populations.
Among Darwin Advocates, Premature Celebration over Abundance of Habitable Planets
“Our Solar System looks ever more like the exception, and it is exceptional in ways that are life friendly.”
Why Did One Theistic Evolutionist Part Ways with BioLogos?
Dennis Venema was one of the authors who responded to Signature in the Cell on the BioLogos website.