Tag: vitalism
Life as a Habitability Requirement
Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability?
Is This a Paradigm Shift?
Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism.
Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life
Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms.
Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?
Vitalism is the age-old idea that living things possess a vital force — some fundamental element that generally does not exist in non-life.
Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?
For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted.