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| ISCID held a Live Chat with James Gardner on Thursday October 16th at 9pm Eastern titled The Selfish Biocosm Hypothesis: Intelligent Design Without a Divine Designer... Read the Transcript here. | |
| View a power point slide show from James Gardner's presentation at the Accelerating Change Conference...click here. | |
Gardner is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School. As an undergraduate at Yale, he studied philosophy and theoretical biology and was named, on the basis of academic accomplishment, a Scholar of the House. His Scholar of the House thesis examined the coevolution of form and content in 20th Century existential philosophy and was based in part on a series of personal interviews he conducted of Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris. At Yale College, Gardner |
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served as Feature Editor of Yale Scientific Magazine and drama critic for the Yale Daily News. During this period, he also authored front page and editorial page feature stories for The Wall Street Journal. Originally
presented in peer-reviewed scientific journals, James Gardner's radical “Selfish
Biocosm” hypothesis proposes that life and intelligence have
not emerged in a series of Darwinian accidents but are essentially
hardwired into the cycle of cosmic creation, evolution, death, and
rebirth. He argues that the destiny of highly evolved intelligence
(perhaps our distant progeny) is to infuse the entire universe with
life, eventually to accomplish the ultimate feat of cosmic reproduction
by spawning one or more “baby universes,” which will themselves
be endowed with life generating properties. In this explanation of
the role of life in the cosmos, Gardner presents an eloquent and lucid
synthesis of the most recent advances in physics, cosmology, biology,
biochemistry, astronomy, and complexity theory. These disciplines increasingly
find themselves approaching the frontier of what was once the exclusive
province of philosophers and theologians. Gardner’s Selfish Biocosm
hypothesis challenges both Darwinists and advocates of intelligent
design, and forces us to reconsider how we ourselves are shaping the
future of life and the cosmos. Related
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