Tag: natural causes
Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage
Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination.
Yes, Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence — Let’s Hear Some for Darwinian Evolution
Carl Sagan famously said, “I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds
SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial.
An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing
What about reports of a radiotrophic fungus near the Chernobyl nuclear accident that can feed off radiation?
Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design
Dr. Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem.