Why Evolution Became Popular
The Creative Potential of Randomness and Chaos?
by: Sean Pitman . The following discussion is from a Spectrum article by Dr. Mailen Kootsey. Dr. Kootsey is a physicist who has “multidisciplinary expertise”, to include appointments in departments of Physics, Physiology, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Biology. His article is entitled, “Bringing the Real World to Genesis: Randomness and Chaos“. In this article…
Emergence and the Origin of Life?
by Sean Pitman: . The following discussion is from a Spectrum article by Dr. Mailen Kootsey. Dr. Kootsey is a physicist who has “multidisciplinary expertise”, to include appointments in departments of Physics, Physiology, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Biology. His article is entitled, “Emergence and Origins of Life”. In this article he tries to explain…
Gary Gilbert, Spectrum, and Pseudogenes
By Arthur V. Chadwick, Ph.D. . In October of 1992, Spectrum Magazine ran an article written by a young physician, Gary Gilbert, in which he attempted to justify his loss of faith on the basis of the existence of pseudogenes. Pseudogenes are regions of DNA that have codes very similar to known genes, but often…