Category: Planetology
Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory
Natural selection can’t work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen.
Geoengineering on an Intelligently Designed Planet — Let’s Be Careful with That
Scientists are still discovering how many systems, controls, and other aspects of planetary fine-tuning are in place to ensure that we have abundant life.
William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet
Shatner‘s revelation may be interpreted as an environmentalist creed, but I rather see it as a poetical formulation of the fine-tuning of Earth for life.
Iterations of Immortality
The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world.
In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything
Let’s look at how timing across multiple orders of magnitude brought together cosmic and human events.