Month: August 2011
The Spine’s Design
No thoughtful person doubts that the body is meant, either by nature or purpose or however you think of it, to work optimally under certain defined conditions.
Darwin’s First Theist: Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Coherence
Darwin had already won his man over — reading the book was almost superfluous. Of course Darwin was delighted by Kingsley’s fawning support.
Vanity, Thy Name is Venema
Soon the frowning and furrowing turned to even more riveting and action-packed gestures. Like putting a book down, picking up other papers, flipping pages, standing up, putting things down on his desk, sitting back down.
The Origin of Life: An RNA World?
We have explored just a small handful of the confounding difficulties confronting the chemical origin of life. This is not a god-of-the-gaps argument, as Matzke claims.
“Irremediable Complexity”
The authors think that over evolutionary time, neutral processes would tend to “complexify” the cell.