Tag: entropy
New Ideas on the Evolution of Photosynthesis Reaction Centers
The serendipity is deafening.
The Second Law Argument: A Timeline
“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.”
The Origin of Life: Correcting Common Mistakes on Thermodynamics
The driving tendencies in nature on the early Earth would have been analogous to seismic tremors rearranging the books in the library.
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.
Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths
A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy.