Young folks in college are using meditation as a way of countering the stress of daily life. The article tells the story of one meditation center in Massachusetts having retreats restricted to young adults.

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Intricate cellular components are often cited as evidence of intelligent design. They couldn't have evolved, I.D. proponents say, because they can't be broken down into smaller, simpler functional parts.

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This is how I saw America's wars from January 2006 until December of 2008. I wanted to make pictures that reflected my complex and often contradictory experiences, where the line was continuously blurred between perpetrator and victim, between hero and villain.

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When you hear the word "planet," do you automatically think of the word's literal definition, or of other words, such as "Earth," "space," "Mars," etc.? Especially when used in sentences, words tend to conjure up similar words automatically.

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Creationists think information theory poses a serious challenge to modern evolutionary biology -- but that only goes to show that creationists are as ignorant of information theory as they are of biology.

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A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.

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The Demon-Haunted World, what an aspiration! America and science, the ignorance is shocking by such an inspiring American.

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A new online service aims to bring customized manufacturing to the masses by allowing consumers to submit digital designs of products that are then printed, using 3-D printers, and shipped back.

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Roughly 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras observed that objects, such as the anvils he purportedly studied, produced harmonious sounds while vibrating at frequencies in simple whole-number ratios.

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All too often, when the OOL [Origin of Life] comes up in popular discussions (reporters, online debates, etc.), the anti-creationist will reply with some variation of "sure, it's a tough unsolved problem, but we're working on it", or the wizened statement "actually, the …

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Humans anthropomorphize and tend to recognize intelligence similar to their own.

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Attacks on fishing boats, cargo ships and yachts have surged, but these modern-day buccaneers may not continue to get their way.

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Comments on the concept of *Intelligent Design*.....no non-scientist searching for the meaning of God cares one way or the other whether the development of trematode parasites are "irreducibly complex." No one will ever start a prayer, "O God, without whom trematode parasites wou …

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2008) — Higher organisms do not have a "cost of complexity" -- or slowdown in the evolution of complex traits -- according to a report by researchers at Yale and Washington University in Nature.

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To this I would add another adage, imparted by a painting teacher some years ago: Start with a broom, finish with a needle.

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"If you start with the simplest possible animal body, then there's only one direction to evolve in -- you have to become more complex," said Matthew Wills of the University of Bath.

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Scientists have revealed what may well be the first pervasive 'rule' of evolution. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers have found evidence which suggests that evolution drives animals to become increasingly more complex.

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The connection between chocolate and Eros runs deep.

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Many years ago, I wrote software to supplement my income, and I know well the satisfaction of writing code, seeing it execute, and seeing functionality unfold on the computer screen.

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A pattern-seeker or Archetype-hunter (an Archetyper) provides a visceral insight into the beauty of life. Touching upon Complexity Theory's order and chaos, he makes a claim that Life is Beautiful because "..living is a tip-toe on the fine line between life and death."

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This past August 15 marked the 75th anniversary of the lecture "Light and Life," by the physicist and (some would say) philosopher, Niels Bohr.

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Debunking The Myth Of "Liberal Thinking"

This article is a response to another seed, summarized here:

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A switch from predominantly undersea volcanoes to a mix of undersea and terrestrial ones may have helped to increase oxygen levels in the ancient Earth's atmosphere. This increase allowed for the evolution of complex oxygen-breathing organisms.

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Spring is here, but you may have been too busy filling out tax forms to enjoy it. The unpaid job of gathering W-2 and 1099s, sorting through receipts, and tabulating deductions, credits, and exemptions takes a lot of time.

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The most interesting of the three papers was perhaps that given by Michael Colebrook, a former ocean biologist and now writer on process theology, who set out from the Leibnizian question, 'why is there something rather than nothing?', to look at individuation from a complexi …

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