Tag: Eric Anderson
Information, Entropy, and the First Life
Some push back with the argument that the Earth is an open system, gaining energy from the sun. Is that a workaround for a naturalistic account of life?
Physicist Eric Hedin on Entropy and the Origin of Life
Physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds?
A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?
As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients.
Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing
Dr. Weikart’s book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today.
Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life
Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms.