Tag: Charles Darwin
Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step
The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel.
By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster
The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals.
Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate
The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction.
Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari
Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.”
From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists
The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment.