Category: Science
Sunlight on the Puzzle of Prebiotic RNA?
In two previous articles, I have argued against the plausibility of generating biologically relevant polymers (proteins, RNA, and DNA) in a prebiotic world.
Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction
Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function.
An Allegory of Denial
On a distant world lived people in a society not unlike our own, except in one interesting way.
Dallas Conference: Earth’s Outstanding Fitness for Life, and Its Implication for Intelligent Design
We can now begin to ask, and in future years continue to reassess, whether the special conditions the Earth satisfies are ubiquitous or unique.
Sex: A Masterpiece of Design
“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.”