Category: Science
In The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson Offers the Best Explication Yet of Nagel’s Book and the Nagel Affair
“A materialist who lived his life according to his professed convictions…wouldn’t just be a materialist: He’d be a psychopath.”
Francis I on a “Plan Inscribed in Nature”
This papacy is starting off nicely, in a number of ways. Here’s one.
From the Annals of Microevolution
“Over 30 years, you can see these birds being selected for their ability to avoid cars.”
What Does Nagel Mean When He Says…
An email friend writes to complain that Thomas Nagel’s prose in Mind & Cosmos sometimes becomes difficult as the book goes along.
A New Worm from the Cambrian Highlights Darwin’s Dilemma
Filling in “missing links” is, at least in pop science terms, something we associate with evolutionary problems that have been solved. That’s the opposite of the case here.