Category: Physics, Earth & Space
What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life
It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life.
Thermodynamic Challenges to the Origin of Life
Spontaneous natural processes always tend toward states of greater entropy, lower energy, or both.
Cosmos Episode 6 — That’s Entertainment! (But Is It Science?)
Here is the problem with speculative thinking about extraterrestrial life as well as about the origin of life.
Listen: Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism
One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse.
The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero
Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature.