Tag: podcast
Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells
Rob Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution.
Physicist John Bloom: Cosmic Design and the Big Bang
Professor Bloom explains some of the exciting evidence of design from physics and cosmology, evidence unknown a century ago.
Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck
When one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence.
Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions
I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions.
Listen: Mathematician Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Incompleteness … and Children
Chaitin discusses his beginnings in computer science, growing up in the 1960s a stone’s throw from Central Park, historic scientists in his field, and more.