which a logical account of free agency can grow. This is not to suggest that atoms, for example, are not causally effective and real too, just that their status as real should be plotted on the same axis as the human self. What would a list

of a subjective self with free will and the ability to engage in self-definition. The experience of identical twins is informative. For siblings to be identical means they have the same genome. Yet, each twin grows up with his or her own

understanding of human freedom. At minimum, nurture remains as important as nature. Molecular biologist R. David Cole, who claims that genetic determinism does not automatically erase free will at the human level, puts it this way:

of laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none.” Are cDNAs a natural phenomenon or a human invention? The cDNA does not occur naturally, and is not a gene per se. Rather, it is a copy version of a gene with

to biotic evolution are free to form as naturally as biologists have long proposed. No free lunch available? No problem; no lunch needed. But what about the bacterial flagellum in particular? Dembski is quite confident that he has

to Evolution . New York: Free Press, 1996. Behe, Michael J. The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism . New York: Free Press, 2007. Corey, Michael A. The God Hypothesis: Discovering Design in Our “Just

entails a dialectic of freedom and constraint. There is a contingent, free element in nature, represented here by the value of Planck's constant and the laws which contain it; they could have been other than what they are. Yet this

Throughout most of No Free Lunch, the terms “chance hypothesis” and “chance explanation” do not refer to chance (random events or processes) alone, but must be taken to mean “all hypotheses, postulates and

Ingram says, “no one is free from suffering unless all sentient beings are free from suffering.” Thus, “energized by awakened compassion, the awakened ones . . . are moved to work in the world to relieve all beings from

theory, 'No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence.' His article is: E. Coli at the No Free Luchroom . Home Next > The Relation of Science