Tag: Chance and Necessity
From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity
Biology was becoming a “real” science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions.
Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?
At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind.
How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man
The extraordinary ensembles of natural environmental fitness described in my book are thoroughly documented scientific facts.
The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection
The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.