grandmother hypothesis – Uncommon Descent

The Darwinian grandmother hypothesis makes a comeback

There are a great many “why do grandmothers exist” theories spawned by Darwinism, none of which owe anything to the effect of human intelligence or the recognition of relationships. The Darwinists are getting closer (to nothing) all the time.

PyrrhoManiac1 @76 The statement about the universe being eternal must be, I think, in reference to some larger meta-universe of which... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Viola Lee The statement about the universe being eternal must be, I think, in reference to some larger meta-universe of which our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 this is so obviously nonsense. Maybe to you it's obviously nonsense. That doesn't mean anything besides your own inability to... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust PM1 @ 68: ...brute fact that the universe is eternal. I bet there aren't five atheist astrophysicists who would agree... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @263 PM1, Marx is simply trying to discredit his critics as class conditioned, but of course HIS reasoning is science.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry it is a brute fact that the universe is eternal this is so obviously nonsense. Another example of specious thinking.... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes PM1@ 262 The suggestion that Darwin’s epistemology is self-defeating only works by assigning to him commitments that he explicitly disavows.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Thanks to Animated Dust. Just ordered Os Guinness’s book, “ Time For Truth” In postmodern society, truth no longer exists... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @68 However, as I pointed out @ 52, to me, the fundamental problem with the Christian God (I’m not familiar... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Origenes, yup. A clue as to what is going on. KF – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, Marx is simply trying to discredit his critics as class conditioned, but of course HIS reasoning is science. See... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 I'm reluctant to get into yet another go-around about Marx or Marxism. All I'll say (for now) is that it's... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF @259 It seems that Darwin's horrid doubt about the human mind ONLY comes up when things point to intelligent... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
AnimatedDust CD @ 58: That question is answered very early in the first chapter of Genesis. The short answer is because... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry but why he needed to create it in the first place But He did! So deal with that. Not make... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Belfast/58 The qualitative difference, then, between an Abrahamic God, and a universal intelligence, or spirit, or force which runs the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust Jerry @ 65: Well said. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @58 Thanks, that is a helpful exegesis of Spinoza's position. I would add a few further points, hopefully this clarifies... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry But demanding that scientists prove the unguided OoL by producing life in a lab certainly speaks volumes about the reasoning... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus Origenes, PM1 is trying to put a wall of partition between convictions, intuition, reasoning and arguing. This may well reflect... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...