Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Ernst Boris ChainTag: science biology morality ethics nature laws study nobel-laureate
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
Arthur KornbergTag: science biology children nobel-laureate germs bedtime-tales
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
Tag: science past biology history evolution instinct fossil form
[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
Tag: science biology atheism ignorance understanding atheist physics watson nobel-laureate dna god-of-the-gaps double-helix watson-and-crick
I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.
Richard E. LeakeyTag: science biology atheism atheist evolution anthropology richard-dawkins dawkins paleontology irreverent mocking-religion
Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided on this point (Oppy 1996; Dawkins 1986; Sober 2008). Some have claimed that the biological design argument did not falter until Darwin provided a proper naturalistic explanation for adaptive complexity; others maintain that David Hume had already shattered the argument to pieces by sheer logical force several decades earlier, in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hume 2007 [1779]). Elliott Sober has been among the philosophers who maintain that, as Hume was not in a position to offer a serious alternative explanation of adaptive complexity, it is hardly surprising that 'intelligent people strongly favored the design hypothesis' (Sober 2000, 36). In his most recent book, however, Sober (2008) carefully develops what he thinks is the most charitable reconstruction of the design argument, and proceeds to show why it is defective for intrinsic reasons (for earlier version of this argument, see Sober 1999, 2002). Sober argues that the design argument can be rejected even without the need to consider alternative explanations for adaptive complexity (Sober 2008, 126): 'To see why the design argument is defective, there is no need to have a view as to whether Darwin’s theory of evolution is true' (Sober 2008, 154).
Maarten BoudryTag: science biology atheism complexity evolution charles-darwin darwin richard-dawkins dawkins david-hume biological-complexity graham-oppy theory-of-evolution argument-for-atheism argument-from-design-refuted atheistic-argument deathblow design-argument-refuted elliott-sober intelligent-design-refuted
My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what we learn from these systems helps us to understand possible pathways leading to the origin of life. Our basic design for a synthetic cell involves the encapsulation of a spontaneously replicating nucleic acid, which acts as the genetic material, within a spontaneously replicating membrane vesicle, which provides spatial localization. We are using chemical synthesis to make nucleic acids with modified nucleobases and sugar-phosphate backbones.
Jack W. SzostakTag: science biology chemistry nobel-laureate origin-of-life artificial-life early-earth early-life first-life laboratory synthetic-life
Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.
James Hervey JohnsonTag: science man biology humanity nature universe struggle evolution naturalism materialism laws-of-nature adaptation laws natural-laws
When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin's theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been published only four years before, and the thesis that man was literally a part of nature, rather than an earthy vessel charged with some sublimer stuff, was so novel and so offensive to current metaphysics that it needed the most vigorous defense. Half the civilized world was rudely shocked, the other half skeptically amused.
Nearly a century has passed since the Origin shattered the complacency of the Victorian world and initiated what may be called the Darwinian revolution, an upheaval of man's ideas comparable to and probably exceeding in significance the revolution that issued from Copernicus's demonstration that the earth moves around the sun. The theory of evolution was but one of many factors contributing to the destruction of the ancient beliefs; it only toppled over what had already been weakened by centuries of decay, rendered suspect by the assaults of many intellectual disciplines; but it marked the beginning of the end of the era of faith.
Tag: science biology nature skeptic evolution naturalism metaphysics huxley intellect beliefs charles-darwin darwin origin-of-species victorian defense rude the-origin-of-species copernicus nicolaus-copernicus on-the-origin-of-species thomas-henry-huxley thomas-huxley amuse end-of-faith ancient-beliefs man-s-place-in-nature
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
Rudolf VirchowTag: science biology belief medicine pathology father-of-pathology
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