Random design of life: To randomize something into life, you just keep rolling the dice until the formula for life pops up. What is it that escapes your understanding? Thermodynamic laws place fundamental limits on the efficiency and fitness of living systems. To...
Quantum mechanics could feasibly turn the event horizon into a giant wall of fire, and anything coming into contact would burn in an instant. Black holes lead nowhere because nothing could ever get inside. This, however, violates Einstein’s general theory of...
DON’T QUESTION US, WE COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE WRONG Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes: the source of information. A code is a set of abstract symbols...
The Milky Way: Out of an estimated 100 billion stars in our galaxy, no more than 14 may be made from antimatter. Antistars, which are identical to regular stars, save because they would burn antimatter at their cores. Antimatter is precisely like ordinary matter,...
Phenomena: Are objects or aspects that are known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition. They are something that is observed to occur or to exist. Predictions are made based on observation, experience, or scientific reasoning. The concordance model is...