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TagHow Life Works (University of Chicago Press 2023)

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DNA sequence. Generative AI

Biology Needs a Fresh Look — But Is It Afraid of What It’ll Find?

A science writer’s musings make clear that intelligent design is the only reasonable explanation for the human genome’s ordered complexity
But Philip Ball doesn’t want to go there and neither do most biologists — thus there are so many issues they just can’t raise. Read More ›
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Blue Moon. Super Full moon august. Moon bright. Stars. The background full of stars in the galaxy.

Only an Immaterial Mind Can Ask “How Does Life Work?”

Science writer Philip Ball, facing cancer surgery, struggles to find meaning and purpose in a wholly material world. He is looking in the wrong place
Materialists want to banish meaning and purpose from science because they know perfectly well that only an immaterial mind could recognize meaning in anything. Read More ›