Tag: Peter Ward
Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery
Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare.
Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous
Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory.
Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics
In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models.
Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates
The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year.
On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update
The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing.