Category Archives: Evolution
Darwin’s Sorest Trouble
Darwin understood that his own theory demanded that the earth be hundreds of millions of years old. But due to limited physics of his day, scientists at that time calculated a very young age of the sun which made Darwin … Continue reading
My Worldview
Below are my posts written to explain my personal philosophy, values or worldview. Updated to and including my December 2010 posts My odd traits and stories Though I am an atheist, I have religious and superstitious tendencies. Atheists come in … Continue reading
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Filed under Atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Evolution, Mysticism, Philosophy, Religion, Religious Dialogue, Science
What makes Humans Unique?
NOTHING ! Unique vs. Superior Well, sure, we are unique, if by “unique” you mean that which puts any living thing in its own place on the shrub of life ! But then every creature is unique ! But that … Continue reading
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Mirror Neurons : Our Moral Imagination
I am reading Robert Wright’s excellent book on “The Evolution of God”. Over at “Liberty and Skepticism“, I wrote a short post on one of Wright’s recent essays — please go take a look.
Filed under Atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, Evolution, Islam, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Religion, Science
Overwhelm them with Facts !
I have heard it said that the best way to defeat creationists is not through argumentations, but to keep doing science and overwhelm them with facts ! This graphic above is by Mark A. Klinger, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, … Continue reading
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Atheist Confirmation Bias
RNA has been made from a prebiotic soup of chemicals or so it would seem by cursorily reading many blogs that may be jumping the gun on celebrating the opportunity to silence those yet another anti-evolution argument. But careful reading … Continue reading
Evolution of the Eye
Dawkins posted a good article on how fast evolution can create complexity. He mentions Matt Ridley’s Evolution Site’s illustration and I link them both hear for you. This is the counter-intuitive stuff that makes it hard for non-math people to … Continue reading
Random Becomes Amazing
One of the huge problems talking to doubters of evolution is catching them up with modern science and math. The confirmatory data of biology and paleontology itself is overwhelming. But to me, the icing on the cake are the mathematical … Continue reading
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