Tag: Freeman Dyson
Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident
The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery.
Bits and Bytes at the Bottom
A funny thing happened on the way to modern scientific materialism’s victory party.
Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”
Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.”
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.
Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written
Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design.