Tag: philosophy
Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism
As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started.
Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life
Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem.
If Richard Sternberg Is Right, That Would Be the End of Darwinism
If the genome is not wholly material, then a fully material process like Darwinian evolution cannot even gain full access to it.
Egnor: The Soul Has No Off Switch
“You’re not going to hear from a mathematics department at the local university that the number 8 passed away yesterday.”
Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled: Get Ready for Revolutions
It might be early to say whether Richard Sternberg’s calculations are correct — but the point is, this kind of calculation is only just becoming possible.