Tag: purpose
A New Look at Natural Selection
If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations.
Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?
Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions.
The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why
These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just “the way things are,” not proving anything. But this is not so.
The Elephant in the Science Lab
I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works.
“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask
Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event.