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Is it justified to communicate one’s feelings regarding someone’s abortion decision? [closed]
Note-1: Due to the question being subjective and opinion based nature, as well as due to it is touching a controversial issue, I have voted to close my own question, with keeping the existing ...
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A circularity in Richard Dawkins's book "The Blind Watchmaker" regarding a definition of life
I wanted to put this question in the biology stack exchange, but some of my questions there have been downvoted. In Richard Dawkins's book "The Blind Watchmaker", in the first chapter, says &...
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Scientific stance on 'life from non-life, naturally'?
As far as I'm aware, almost everyone (from Dawkins to Lennox to Hovind) agrees that at some point in the past there was no life in our universe, and currently there is. Therefore life somehow arose ...
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How can one reconcile the physical view of life and the second law of thermodynamics?
Life appears to not follow the second law which states that (approximately speaking) physical systems tend towards more disorder (higher entropy).
This appears to be not true with life which actively ...
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Did Charles Darwin say anything on why life was formed in the first place? [closed]
To be viewed from the perspective of epistemology and/or the philosophy of science.
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Darwin, like scientists of his day, often spoke of “Laws” that inevitably cycle forth the results ...
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What are the phylosophical implications of the definitions of life? [closed]
What are the philosophical implications of having life defined somehow? How can our worldview be affected by the definition of life we accept?
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Is there a philosophical conception of not necessarily biological life?
Biologists usually think of life in terms of the ability of a system to harness energy from the environment to grow and to reproduce. However in Stanislav Lem's book 'Solaris' there is a vivid ...
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