27Jul 2024 by Post

Responding to Lee Cronin: A Modular Theory of Assembly

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Despite its fatal defects, Assembly Theory does raise the prospect of what a successful theory of assembly might look like. Source
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23Oct 2023 by Post

Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

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Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Source
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