Tag: software
Seeking a Way Around RNA World, New Study Only Increases Perplexity of Abiogenesis
The origin of biological information is a mystery not so much highlighted by a comparison with software as downplayed by it.
New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?
To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way.
Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery
French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”
Ewert’s Dependency Graph Proposal: A Forest of Compositions
To help further explain this concept, I would like to introduce readers to my pet bunny, Daisy.
Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism
Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion.