“We are to press known secondary causes as far as they will go in explanation of facts. We are not to resort to an unknown cause for explanation of phenomena until the power of known causes has been exhausted. If we cease to observe this rule there is an end to all science and of…

The world’s first gene edited babies have been born into the world. Chinese twins Nana and Lulu had their DNA edited using CRISPR gene editing technology, by geneticist He Jiankui. Mr. He is a team leader at Southern University of Science and Technology in China. The twins’ DNA has now been altered to protect them…

Business Evolution 2.0 at Chicago Notre Dame! How to Extract Business Secrets from Mother Nature Perry Marshall with WBBM’s Cisco Cotto Friday November 9, 2:45-5pm Perry Marshall is an author, speaker, engineer, and business consultant. This is an invitation to sit in as he joins us in class at the University of Notre Dame’s Chicago…

Where Did Life Come From? #1 Question in the History of the Universe Engineer offers $5 Million Prize Perry Marshall at Penn State University’s Department of Electrical Engineering Monday November 12, 1PM Hub-Robeson Center, 2nd Floor – Room 233A/B, University Park, PA 16802 MAP    BUILDING FLOOR PLAN (Parking available at the HUB Parking Deck) What…

1 All forms of evolution harness identical principles. (Technology, business, music, culture and biology.) Good science is good engineering. Any theory of evolution is a theory of engineering. You can test theory by applying it to technology. You do not understand any system until you’ve built it and it works. 2 The central question in…

I’ve been conversing with folks on Peaceful Science about randomness in evolution. I asked them to define randomness. “T_aquaticus” replied: If you purposefully shuffle a deck of cards the result is

Joshua Swamidass from Washington University invited me to respond to conversations on his blog about Evolution 2.0. I wrote two blog posts in response. We are asking: Are the mutations that produce useful changes in evolution random? Or not? Joshua says they’re random. I (along with scientists like Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock) insist

Below is an email I just received from a reader of Evolution 2.0. I loved the insights in his email and at the end of it, he asked a great question about unchanged organisms and Evolutionary Creation. So instead of responding privately, I thought I’d make this a public conversation for the rest of the…

In my blog post It’s Time to Tighten the Definition of “Random” I said it makes no sense to say “There is a pattern to a mutation’s randomness.” Joshua Swamidass (Washington University) and friends challenged me on this. Before I respond, let’s understand why anyone should care. I first tumbled into

S. Joshua Swamidass is an associate professor in the Laboratory and Genomic Medicine Division at Washington University in St Louis. His research uses computational methods solve problems at the intersection of medicine, chemistry and biology. Joshua and I have met at several conferences and had long discussions. He, like myself, is very interested in ending…