Tag: advanced life
New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis
A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle.
Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery
Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare.
Eric Hedin: The Miracle(s) of Metal
Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more?
An Astonishing Life-Friendly Coincidence: The Properties of the Nonmetal Atoms
It is well established that there are far more ways in which the universe might have been that are non-conducive to life than there are life-friendly ways.
Is Life an Information Ratchet?
Some examples of ratchets include a socket wrench, an old-fashioned car jack, and a winch mounted on a truck or on a ship to haul up an anchor.