“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto There is no question that the activities of science and religion have very different aims; their boundaries are wide and goalposts divergent. For starters, science is taken to lead humanity towards a technological utopia free… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Philosophy of Science
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 4
Increasing Homozygosity Affirms the Adam and Eve Hypothesis Recognizing the increase of entropy and the slow march toward heat death had implications for the beginning of the universe as a space-time singularity, Roger Penrose in the 1970s posited the need for a state of low entropy in the classic Big Bang model.[1] Similarity, since the… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 3
Increasing Homozygosity Predicts Extinction In accord with the Primary Axiom, both ND biologists and physicists have assumed for decades that natural selection must be the counter-balance to biological entropy. John Polkinghorne recognized the conflict between what he labeled the “pessimistic arrow of time” reflected in thermodynamic entropy and the seeming complexification of biological systems. His… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 2
Entropy and the Biological Connection Around 1850, physicists Sir. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Rudolf Clausius established both the First Law of Thermodynamics—while the diverse energy forms within a system are interchangeable, the total energy of a closed system is conserved—and the Second Law of Thermodynamics— over time, the energy convertible to work in a closed system irreversibly decreases… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 1
This is the first post in a series that is designed as a discussion starter about the scientific probability of Adam and Eve. The argument is a unique apologetic advancing the philosophical argument for Fine Tuning by applying new genomic research into the controversial study of human origins. As each part is posted, I invite… Continue Reading
