Category: Life Sciences
Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion
As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes.
Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud
Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth.
Plant Galls, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Complex structures of thousands of species have been formed for the exclusive good of other species, annihilating Darwin’s theory on his own terms.
Why Water Is Important for Human Life — A Doctor Explains
Biologist Ray Bohlin and physician Howard Glicksman discuss the body’s wondrous control systems for using water.
Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony
Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology.