Tag: Research
How Microbes Make Earth Habitable
The uncanny dependence of Earth on its smallest creatures seems too good to be happenstance.
Natural Life: Cosmological Fine-Tuning as an Argument for Structuralism
If nature is so fine-tuned for life’s environment, might the fine-tuning not also include a set of laws of form, geared to actualize the forms of life on earth?
Junk DNA: Is Preventing Breast Cancer a Function?
Score another function for non-coding DNA. Without this “junk,” cells proliferate and spread, causing cancer.
You Can’t Ascribe Intelligence to an Unguided Process
There’s a new movement afoot among some evolutionary biologists to co-opt the term “intelligent design.”
Steiner Wars: An Exchange with Dave Thomas
To visualize a Steiner tree, think about a collection of cities to be connected by a road network.