Category: Science
Excerpt: Darwinism and Design
Much of the difficulty here arises in the differing standards that different disciplines have for what constitutes an “explanation.”
Preview: James Tour, Brian Miller on the Origin of “Data Risk Management” in DNA
If computer scientists build systems like that, and life at the DNA level also incorporates them, for the very same reasons, that’s rather suggestive.
Life’s Origin — A “Mystery” Made Accessible
If you “listen to the experts,” or anyway some of the experts, cells are “little bags of garbage” and Miller-Urey is a “true simulation of prebiotic chemistry.”
Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)
Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes.
Determinism: “An Irrational Rejection of Evidence”
German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder takes even human choices to be merely an illusory experience.