Tag: spontaneous generation
Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial
Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations.
Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life
Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth.
Fascia, Your Body’s Fashionable “New” Organ
It’s not often that a new functional organ is found in the human body, considering that everything has been dissected and drawn for centuries.
Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species
Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression.
Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin
The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing!