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July 2021

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Image: Three-spine stickleback, by Alexander Francis Lydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›
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Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Read More ›
MOLO RNA world
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Information, Entropy, and the First Life

Physicist Eric Hedin talks about the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism. Read More ›
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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life

Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life. Read More ›

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