Selfish gene – Uncommon Descent

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“Dawkins believes what he wishes to believe”

Richard Dawkins’ autobiography has been reviewed in the London Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9025021/an-appetite-for-wonder-by-richard-dawkins-review/. The reviewer’s verdict? “He relies just as much on a leap of faith as those religious believers he so keenly affects to despise. His theory also cannot explain how those selfish genes eventually came to evolve the one species on earth which is marked out Read More…

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Darwinian ethics

In this article in the Daily Telegraph (UK), we see some typical philosophical and cultural applications of Darwinism: People are unfaithful to their marriages Therefore, it is natural Therefore, it is right i.e. What is, is what is right. Since we are no more than nature, all that we do is thus natural – and Read More…

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Predisposed to believe

Science Daily reports “A three-year international research project, directed by two academics at the University of Oxford, finds that humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife.” As my friend added, “This research was quite costly – they could have saved money by reading the Bible!” Link here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714103828.htm I wonder how Read More…

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Coffee!! Just because I don’t feel like going back to work just yet …

Apparently, according to an article in Current Biology, Polyandry [a girl gets married to a bunch of guys at once] can regulate the frequency of a sex-ratio-distorting meiotic driver This can prevent extinction in populations and potentially species Reduced extinction risk may help explain why polyandry is so widespread in nature I hold no brief for Read More…

jerry spot on The anti ID people have conceded the truth of ID. There only strategy is mocking and diversion. No... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Viola Lee Bowing back in: your point is essential. As free-willed moral creatures, we are the cause of morality: all the consensual... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
chuckdarwin Zweston @ 44 I thought I was the Black Knight of Monty Python fame. So now its Sev? I'm hurt....... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes If X creates your faculties of intelligence and free will so that you will have the capacity to think and... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
zweston Chucky d, will you tell me your responses to the thought experiment? – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
zweston Jerry, spot on. And I'm one of those people who continue to defend Christianity...but I really don't need to. The... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Lieutenant Commander Data Seversky If God is omniscient then He knows all that there is to know. If Seversky is ignorant then he... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Viola Lee Stephen, I see that you were addressing Origenes, not me, so I apologize for pressing you on responding to me.... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
jerry Genetics and natural selection operating. Call it evolution but it is not Evolution. Wait till those cute adorable elephant cows... – Are humans changing evolution? Like tuskless...
jerry Interesting phenomenon! When one is obviously losing an argument against ID, never respond to the logical argument but attack Christianity.... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes SB@ //on the claims “I, Origenes, exist” & “I, Origenes, am self aware”// O: I arrive at a self-evident truth.... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
StephenB SB: Meanwhile, you have not yet addressed the major problem with your hyper-subjective philosophy: You can, as the subject, be... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
bornagain77 Seversky asks, "if after death we move to a much better “plane of existence”, why does your God make us... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes SB @ The problem with your position is that you seem to reduce everything to the subjective realm, even to... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
Origenes SB, Viola Lee@ SB: Meanwhile, you have not yet addressed the major problem with your hyper-subjective philosophy: You can, as... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
polistra Climate change, climate change, climate change, pandemic, biodiversity, mass extinction, mass extinction, Anthropocene, Anthropocene, climate change, climate change, climate change.... – Are humans changing evolution? Like tuskless...
Eugene I don't understand why they keep calling time a "dimension". It is clearly not a dimension, but a "variable" which... – At Medium: Six scientific paradoxes on...
Seversky Zweston/37 Sev: If the God of the Bible appeared to you and you had knowledge without a doubt it was... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Seversky Bornagain77/30 Seversky claimed that living in an imperfect world counted as evidence against Christianity. Yet, the Bible has ALWAYS claimed... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Seversky Doubter/26 Maybe there is no inconsistency with the Christian doctrine of omnipotence because He simply doesn’t choose to exert complete... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
kairosfocus SB, as a note, testimony of a responsible, credible witness often provides adequate warrant, and this may apply to internal,... – Materialists Know What They Say is...