Tag: natural selection
A Cambrian Explosion…of Robots?
According to Wired, a new epoch has begun, and it is driven by intelligent design.
Design (But Not Design) Is the New Unifying Principle of Biology
The human eye is for seeing, whether or not it has any effect on genetics. However, this common-sense view has a problem.
Purpose and Desire Meets Jerry Coyne: The Evolution of Homeostasis?
Consider one of the simplest kinds of homeostasis — just one part of the regulation of sugar metabolism in E coli.
In Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner Argues that Cognition Is Foundational to Life
The evidence of purpose and design permeate life at every level, and this evidence presents ever increasing challenges to all theories of undirected evolution.
Bottom-Up Bottoms Out
Materialist attempts to model the construction of hierarchical organization from the bottom up collapse into a heap of unanswered questions.
