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A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to...more

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So...more

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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming...more

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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sen...more

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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, ...more

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... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved organs: on-board computers...more

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What, after all, is so special about genes? The answer is that they are replicators. The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessib...more

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All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

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The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. It must have an impartial exit channel into the fut...more