Category: Science
Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?
New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost “alien” species.
Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not
It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold.
Could Evolution Give Us Free Will?
From one corner we learn that free will could possibly exist, provided that it is materialized or, if you like “evolutionized.”
Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in an Intelligently Designed World
As Hedin puts it, “The universe reveals who we are by allowing us to make free choices.” In other words, the ball is in our court.
Is Intelligent Design Compatible with Evolutionary Theory? A Theologian Weighs In
Of course, a critic might worry that Kojonen’s model violates Ockham’s razor. Why posit two explanations when only one will do?