Tag: Greek
Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge
All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs.
Sagan’s “Star Stuff” and the Suicide Pod
If life is nothing more than material or “stuff,” why not allow people to recycle themselves when they feel their useful lifespan has come to an end?
Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design
Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change.
Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution
The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again.
Is Consciousness a Recent Development?
Few stopped to ask how a poet like Homer wrote the Iliad if he really was not conscious himself.