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prairie dog
Photo: A prairie dog, by skeeze via Pixabay.

Defining the “Science of Purpose”

The "science of purpose" is new to the analytic framework, and is thus obliged to make the case for its claim to validity.  Read More ›
Hunga-Tonga blast
Photo: Hunga-Tonga blast from space, by NASA

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ochir-Erdene Oyunmedeg via Unsplash.

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›
earth
Photo credit: NOAA.

Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›
wax worm
Photo: A wax worm, by Sam Droege, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›
Samuel Haughton
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Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›
ectoplasm
Photo: A medium exuding "ectoplasm," by Harvey Metcalfe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›
polar bear
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Complex Programmed Behaviors — Intelligently Designed

Some discriminators don’t get us very far in deciding which is the better explanation between blind evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›
knee
Image: Human knee, by Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›
Kepler-442b
Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›

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