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The Gods Must Be Tidy!: Is the Cosmos a Work of Poor Engineering or the Gift of an Artistic Designer? by Jonathan Witt

Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution.

Charles Darwin was probably right when he suggested all life on Earth started in a “primordial soup.” Scientists continue to find evidence of the theory.

Updates: 12th of September 2021: I’m writing a book on DNA! If you want to become a beta reader, or have suggestions, I’d love to hear from you! 8th of January 2021: This article has been revised and updated, scientifically and in terms of dead links. Revision made by Tomás Simões (@putadagravidade / tomasprsimoes@gmail.com). Feel free to contact me if I made a mistake. 25th of August 2017: This page has led to a two-hour presentation called DNA: The code of Life as presented at SH...

The "extraordinary book [thats] about a basic fact of biology" is part of the "one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach," Bezos wrote, adding the following excerpt: "Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment ... Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintai...

The "extraordinary book [thats] about a basic fact of biology" is part of the "one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach," Bezos wrote, adding the following excerpt: "Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment ... Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintai...

Crocodiles evolved in a way called punctuated equilibrium, with tandem short- and long-lived species. The same may be true of other “living fossil” species around the world. It’s been 200 million years, but crocodiles haven’t aged a day. You love badass beasts. So do we. Lets nerd out over them together. In a new paper, scientists from the U.K. explain how this notorious “living fossil” has kept its rugged good looks since the heyday of the dinosaurs. In the study, the researchers ...

lot of the time, including through the cold and difficult winter months. Today, we know that hibernating animals walk a very fine line of preparation and subsistence, building fat stores and activating biological triggers to lower body temperature and metabolism. But while modern humans have technology that staves off nutritional diseases, for example, our prehistoric ancestors had no such luck. ZZZZZ It’s in these absences, which leave physical marks on the human skeleton, that researche...

New AI research shows that a major cornerstone of evolutionary theory could be totally wrong. By analyzing species data, the algorithm found die-outs and flourishing arent usually linked. There are way more "top 5 percent" population events than we might have realized. Scientists have new evidence that Earth’s many periodic mass extinctions follow a cycle of about 27 million years, connecting the five major mass extinctions with more minor ones occurring throughout Earth’s life-fostering ti...