Author: Paul Nelson
Viewing Chinese Lanterns in Pittsburgh
I mused about the genetic coding requirements for the changes in protein expression and timing (during development) to give its precise floral morphology.
Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud
When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated.
Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem
The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.”
Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”
It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative.
Troubles with the Tree of Life
Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change.