Tag: Francis Crick
Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity
Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target.
How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind
Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans.
Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin
There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results.
Intelligent Design: Theistic Implications?
Although the case for intelligent design depends upon scientific evidence and methods of reasoning, it may well have larger theistic implications.
Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality
There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth.