Tag: How Life Works
Meaning and Purpose from a Darwinian Process?
Dr. Emily Reeves looks at the top sources of meaning in life, including religion, relationships, and work, and evaluates the evolutionary view of each.
The End of the Machine Metaphor?
Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose.
Reading Between the Lines: Intelligent Design in Philip Ball’s Non-ID Book
Ball, in describing this new biology, feels the need to appeal to design language despite his overt disavowal of any support for intelligent design.
With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance
Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.”
Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”
In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.”