What happens when researchers from competing scientific worldviews sit down for an honest conversation? In this dialogue, three thinkers—exploring Neo-Darwinism, Third Way evolution, and Intelligent Design—discover unexpected common ground while respecting disagreements. Denis Noble (Oxford University, Third Way evolution, www.thethirdwayofevolution.com), Casey Luskin (Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design, www.evolutionnews.org), and Perry Marshall (Evolution 2.0, bridge-builder, www.evo2.org) engage…

I got a question from an astute reader: I picked this passage out of a book as an example to help raise a philosophical question about biology and purpose and intent: There are many connected species that deal with dead animals in a river system. There are species in the water and species on the…

Assembly Theory and the Third Transition in Science Before I describe Life as No One Knows It, I need to point out that Sara Imari Walker has achieved something extraordinarily difficult. Despite being a highly credentialed scientist with first class collaborators (including Lee Cronin, Paul Davies and her team at ASU), the task she’s undertaken…

Andrew Briggs started to write the book Human Flourishing just before COVID and then the world went mad. Since then, the world has gotten even madder and many people are clutching their smartphones, wringing their hands, managing their anxiety, or merely existing. What does it mean to flourish and what do people, relationships, and professions…

I sympathize with the pain of scientists losing their grants. But… when you make a deal with the devil, you get the horns. My own 20 years of self-funded scientific work has shown me that most scientists are government employees who’ve literally signed away their autonomy and freedom of speech. Scientists must be EXTREMELY vigilant…

The Evolution 2.0 Prize Submission AI GPT is designed to help you shape the best possible submission for the Evolution 2.0 Prize. It’s a specialized assistant programmed with the official rules, what our judges are looking for, and where many submissions go off track. When you bring your idea or paper here, the AI carefully…

Tim Howard interviews me and Sy Garte about our new paper with Stuart Kauffman The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Biological Sciences. Join us for a fascinating discussion about a new revolution underfoot in biology:

  Every theory of evolution is a theory of engineering. You can test any scientific theory by applying it to technology. The central question in biology: “What does a cell know about itself?” Life directs its own evolution. Three levels of causation: Chemicals (universal laws of physics), codes (local rules of language & logic), and…

Charles Munford hosts a lively discussion every month called “Agential Topics.” I was a guest and the group had a wide ranging enjoyable conversation. My paper “Biology Transcends the Limits of Computation” is the manifesto behind the Evolution 2.0 Prize. In this presentation I explain my wider thinking behind the paper as well as my…

Two of my favorite scientists, Michael Levin and Azra Raza with Aastha Jain Simes, put their heads together in this provocative and touching interview. Azra describes the technology of our new company PredictRX that detects cancer at Stage Negative One. We do this with a “Stentinel,” (starts at 15 minutes in) a stent with electronic…