Category: Biology Philosophy
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Genetics - A product of Faith...
Darwin started a revolution in thought with his theory of Natural Selection, but without a clear understanding of how variation arises and is inherited (implying that Faith! played a major role in his formulating a theory which could not be founded properly). This changed with Mendel in the early 1900s... It was a clergyman who…
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Biochemistry against Evolution (or "Do not trust scientists")
Evolution is most of the times believed to “exist” everywhere and to be applied to everything just on the basis of authority. But everyone should question more what he is asked to “believe” and “know”. Everyone should ask the “scientists” to explain what they say and one should never be afraid to ask only because…
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Life definition problem and modern scientific dogmatism
What is "life"? A question so simple, but yet unanswered. Not a single scientific field has been able to give a consistent answer to that universal question, which has troubled scientists and philosophers for centuries. Wikipedia defines life as the characteristic which characterizes beings which have signaling and self-sustaining processes - a definition too weak…
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Viruses as a key to life philosophy...
Viruses are a weird thing. We are afraid of them, but we try to use them as cure for cancer [1]. They seem to challenge the "central dogma" of modern biology, i.e. the movement of information from the DNA to RNA: transfering information from RNA to DNA was found to be routine in retroviruses (such as…
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The weight of soul, the dogmatism of medicine...
Once upon a time, a physician conducted six experiments which showed that there is a stable loss of weight upon human death. The physician was Dr. Duncan "Om" MacDougall (c. 1866 – October 15, 1920). In March 1907, accounts of MacDougall's experiments were published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the medical journal…
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