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Reductionism Reconsidered
From: Edward Remler I read this with a heavy heart. An eminent physicist confusing an already hopelessly confused subject....
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Being Mean to Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould is the best-known evolutionist in Americaand his fame goes well beyond his country’s borders. My father,...
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Reductionism
There seems to be quite a misunderstanding about reductionism, based on a strong misapprehension of what it allows in...
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The Wisdom to Know – Either Oars
When a problem persists against our usual repertoire of responses we really have only two choices. One is to...
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Another Way to Detect Design
In The Design Inference (Cambridge, 1998) I argue that specified complexity is a reliable empirical marker of intelligent design....
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Review of Pollack’s “The Missing Moment”
Meta 166. 1999/12/20. Approximately 2567 words. Below is a review of Robert Pollack’s new book “The Missing Moment:How the...
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Report from the Parliament of the World’s Religions: Notes From a Participant’s Journal
Introduction Participation in the Parliament of the World’s Religions (1999) was a most enriching experience, and I am sharing...
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Evolutionary Reflections on The Great War and the New Millenium
Evolutionary biologists have long been interested in war and aggression. It was something Darwin talked of in his Descent...
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Alchemy and the Emergence of Complex Systems
INTRODUCTION Alchemy has gone the way of the dodo, or has it? On any word analogies test, pairing alchemy...
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Love Thy Neighbor
Altruistic love (or “love of neighbor”) can be directed to kin, friends, strangers, the neediest, and even for enemies. ...