Tag: physics
New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design
According to Halsmer, engineering involves “the creative use of resources and ingenuity to accomplish a purpose or solve a problem.” It does so by creating “affordances.”
Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?
Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible.
How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight
He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.”
The Radio at the Edge of the Universe
If the universe were a radio and the desired setting allows for life, it would have dozens of dials for setting the values of the universal constants.
Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law
I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.”