Avi Loeb suggests that the design of life might have been a black hole. Michael Egnor responds
Things that might surprise you about great scientists
Trying to subtly deflate Karl Popper’s falsification—again
Origin of Life: A review of Paul Davies’ Demon in the Machine
People are saying great things about the film, My Octopus Teacher
Researchers: 635 million-year-old fossil helped the planet recover from an ice age
Scientific American treats Avi Loeb’s design inference with respect
Over the years, many claims have been made for arsenic and the origin of life
Should we recognise that “laws of nature” extend to laws of our human nature? (Which, would then frame civil law.)
Laws of Nature are a key part of the foundation of modern science. This reflects not only natural, law-like regularities such as the Law of Gravitation that promotes the Earth to the heavens (from being the sump of the cosmos) but also the perspective of many founders that they were thinking God’s creative, ordering providential and world-sustaining thoughts after him. The focal topic asks us whether our civil law is effectively an accident of power balances, or else, could it be accountable to a built in law that pivots on first duties coeval with our humanity. The issue becomes pivotal, once we ponder the premise that the typical, “natural” tendency of government is to open or veiled lawless oligarchy: So, Read More ›