existentialism – Uncommon Descent

Darwinian philosopher Michael Ruse muses on life

He does not really address the fact that most naturalists don’t actually believe that the free will he assumes actually exists.

Querius In addition, have you noticed that some of the regular critics here also respond to the OPs right away using... – Ethan Siegel makes another paper assault...
bornagain77 Of related note: Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name) Brian Miller - October 16,... – Ethan Siegel makes another paper assault...
Origenes The whole article reads like this terrible sentence: Takehome: If information flow in the brain is “largely unconstrained” by anatomical... – At Mind Matters News: GWT: A...
Yarrgonaut I think if we just started pointing out that a multiverse implies that we're most probably a simulated universe -... – Ethan Siegel makes another paper assault...
Yarrgonaut The researcher gave up speculating about evolutionary history to make predictions, but made a discovery based on design mechanics. This... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
polistra There seems to be a changing consensus on the damage of inbreeding. Deliberate inbreeding to achieve specific and unnatural characteristics... – Finding re endangered snakes is the...
Bob O'H Jerry - in Germany they use "heiss" for temperature-hit and scharf ("sharp") for spicy hot. – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
jerry We Made a Big Mistake…We’re Inoculating a Poison This has been known since the beginning. MedCram discussed the affect of... – BREAKING: President Trump, Mrs Trump &...
jerry What I find interesting is that spicy hot is the same as hot hot. I often comment that the food... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
Bob O'H A friend who knows the scene writes: First, their findings run counter to classic theory with respect to depression caused... – Finding re endangered snakes is the...
Hanks Neither William Lane Craig nor Ronald Cram are theoretical physicists You need to keep in mind that all scientific discoveries... – Another shot in the campaign against...
bornagain77 So that Special Relativity, (considering its 'renormalization' with quantum mechanics), would provide a more robust proof for an absolute beginning... – Another shot in the campaign against...
bornagain77 (Leaving aside Seversky's disingenuous attempt to, once again, equate science itself with his philosophy of atheistic materialism), Seversky protests that,... – Another shot in the campaign against...
Hanks I can see how a channel that warns of potentially damaging heat could be advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. First... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
polistra Acquired pleasurable tolerance is the more interesting purpose. This one receptor, with its feedback circuit, helps us to eat and... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
AaronS1978 I absolutely love it. I eat food that melts through cement Although I’d like to point out that the heat... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
Seversky Martin_r/3 Why Materialism Needs Ape Ancestors i posted the following before, but let me remind you again…. not only ape... – Science Uprising 8: Why materialism needs...
Seversky I can see how a channel that warns of potentially damaging heat could be advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. What... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
Seversky I can just imagine a Neanderthal dropping in to his local convenience cave for a pack of twenty Dunghill. Maybe... – Horrors! Our Stone Age ancestors… SMOKED!!
Seversky Maybe we should just tear down all the monuments to celebrities, past and present, as all of them will have... – Classifier of life forms Linnaeus gets...
Seversky Bornagain77/8 As usual, Chuck Darwin is not telling the full story. Carrol was indeed dishonest in the debate in that... – Another shot in the campaign against...