Elon Musk, whose ambition for space colonies is legendary, has said, “This is a close match for my philosophy.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
The Law of Conservation of Information
There are a lot of details here, and the result is nontrivial though the conservation of information inequality looks utterly elementary and straightforward. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference
The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Richard
If I were an atheist, I would feel pretty discouraged about now by the New Atheist icon. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information
“Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper.” Source Read More Science and…
Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To
Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source Read More Science and…
My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago
After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Source Read More Science and…
NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious,” Says Dr. Egnor
If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Found: Oldest Evidence for an Organismal Magnetic Compass
The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Conservation Laws and Life: If It Looks Designed, It Is
In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics. Source Read More Science and Culture Today