Tag: purpose
From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists
The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment.
Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus
The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals.
Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”
A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye.
Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later
Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer.
A Tweet Representing the Core Challenge We Face
Christian Landry is the Principal Investigator of a lab at Laval University in Quebec, doing really interesting work on cellular networks.