Tag: function
Another “Vestigial” Organ Turns Out to Have “Absolutely Critical” Functions: The Human Yolk Sac
Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations.
Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?
At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind.
Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?
Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences.
Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework
Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature.
Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design
Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics.