Tag: physics
According to Jerry Coyne, “Why Evolution Is True” in a Nutshell
Coyne mainly does two things: Make fun of religion, and post pictures of cute cats.
A New Study of James Clerk Maxwell Attempts to Defend His Design Argument at the Expense of Intelligent Design
Maxwell breathed new life into natural theology and helped in some measure to sustain the design argument in Victorian England.
The Butterfly Effect, Strange Attractors and Scientific Predictability
Can the flapping of a butterfly’s wings really cause a tornado in Texas?
Animation Reveals Engineering Elegance of RNA Interference
RNA interference essentially involves a four-step pathway.
Materialists Beware: The First Gene Defends a Strictly Scientific, Non-Materialist Conception of Biological Origins
Can a book that is essentially devoid of the term “intelligent design,” doesn’t talk about “specified complexity,” and makes only scant mention of “irreducible complexity,” offer an argument that is friendly to teleology in biology? A new technical book, The First Gene, edited by Gene Emergence Project director David L. Abel, shows that the answer to that question is “yes.” Materialists will not like this book because its arguments are 100% scientific, devoid of religious, political, or cultural concerns, and most importantly, compelling. The arguments in The First Gene are rooted in what Abel calls “ProtoBioSemiotics” or “ProtoBioCybernetics,” which according to Abel answers questions like: How did a prebiotic natural environment of mere mass/energy interactions generate meaningful, functional messages? How Read More ›