Tag: disorder
Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.”
Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without
Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more.
On Universal Darwinism
Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology.
Darwinism — Like Every Other Known Natural Process — Devolves
Natural selection is not, after all, the one natural process in the universe that can make nature run backward.
Does Nature Show Purpose? Reply to a Materialist Philosopher
Aristotelian teleology is, as Joseph Carter points out, manifested by order in nature. More precisely, teleology is consistency: natural processes tend to consistent ends.