Category: Science
Two Views of Biology: Structuralism vs. Functionalism
A structuralist view suggests the biological realm is undergirded by “crystal-like” primal patterns, specified in the laws of nature.
Flat-Earth Myth, Anyone? Recalling Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Long Pedigree
Which reminds me, who will be this year’s COTY (Censor of the Year)? Give us your nominations by February 5.
A Fourth Layer of Epicycles on the Standard Cosmology
As you may recall, the Big Bang expelled all the matter in the universe with a certain amount of violence or explosive velocity.
Brave New World, Here We Come
This is 21st-century eugenics — and it will, in the end, become just as oppressive and anti-human equality as the original version.
Information and Mutation — Responding to David Levin
Twenty years ago I wrote: “No random mutation has been observed that adds information to the genome.” That still stands.