Wonderful Code
Incredibly, every living thing – you, your cat, the plant on your desk, and the bacteria in your toilet – share exactly the same genetic code. It has been suggested that the particular code we all use...
View ArticleEcological Hope
Human activity on our planet continues to cause wide scale ecological havoc at such a rate that it can be tempting to give up hope, sit back, and let things unfold however they will. When Richard...
View ArticleIs Teleology a Useful Concept in Biology?
Cells, by Dora Pete. http://www.sxc.hu Everyone uses teleological language – the language of purpose – even when it doesn’t seem to make rational sense. We ascribe motives to everyday processes, so the...
View ArticleNew Approaches to the Origin of Life
Mike Melrose, flickrcc.bluemountains.net Studying the origin of life is an intractable problem, a little like navigating the misty trackless waste that is central Dartmoor. For an event that happened...
View ArticleProgress?
Lichen, Barbara Page, 2007, wikipedia.org The process of evolution has produced a world of great beauty, diversity and complexity. Ants form structured societies, trees reach for the skies, and whole...
View ArticleWonders of the Living World
© Ruth Bancewicz God in the Lab has been well and truly launched, and I am now turning my attention to some new topics. One of the questions I will be asking over the next few months is, what are the...
View ArticleWhat is the world for? Creation, purpose, and hope in difficult times
Why should we explore the world? According to Jonathan Moo, a Biblical scholar who is currently based at the Faraday Institute, creation is not just valuable for what we get from it. In today’s...
View ArticleThe Purposeful Squirrel: Can organisms act with intention?
Cropped Eastern Grey Squirrel By Diliff (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia CommonsMy desk at the Faraday Institute has a view of the garden, where a squirrel buries its nuts in the...
View ArticleBook Preview: Is There Purpose in Biology? The cost of existence and the God...
‘St George and the dragon’, an artistic interpretation of a T lymphocyte killing a cancer cell, Wellcome images, © Odra Noel Reactions to the question “Is There Purpose in Biology?” are likely to vary...
View ArticleBook Preview: A Reckless God?
Pixabay The claim of biblical theism is that the world in which we find ourselves is not eternally self-sufficient: it has a maker, on whom it depends not just for some initial impulse long ago, but...
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