http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160113-could-just-two-people-repopulate-earth
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Showing posts with label Evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evolution. Show all posts
Friday, January 15, 2016
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Fear Is The Root Of All Superstition
Empathy and cooperation from evolution and socialization, combined with reason and science-based thinking, are the antidotes.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/we-got-scared-a-paean-to-science-and-rationality/
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/we-got-scared-a-paean-to-science-and-rationality/
Friday, January 1, 2016
Evolution 2.0?
First there was Creationism. That was defeated decades ago. Then, there was Intelligent Design. That was defeated with the Kitzmiller vs Dover trial in 2005:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District.
Now the apologists are trying a new challenge to the consensus of the experts in evolutionary biology called Evolution 2.0:
http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Is-it-time-for-Evolution-2.0-Perry-Marshall-vs-PZ-Myers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District.
Now the apologists are trying a new challenge to the consensus of the experts in evolutionary biology called Evolution 2.0:
http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Is-it-time-for-Evolution-2.0-Perry-Marshall-vs-PZ-Myers
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The Life Of A Scientist Well-Lived
If one has a love for science and academia, please savor this from the "Retiring" Jerry Coyne.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/i-retire-today/
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/i-retire-today/
Monday, September 28, 2015
Evolution And Christianity Are Not Compatible
Proponents of Theistic Evolution claim that it is compatible with science. Assuming science deals with probabilities and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, Here are three reasons why evolution and Christianity are not compatible:
1) "Living things are indeed wonderfully complex, but altogether within the range of a statistically powerful, entirely mechanical phenomenon."
2) "- - - we are perfectly good animals, natural as can be and indistinguishable from the rest of the living world at the level of structure as well as physiological mechanism."
3) "- - - although the natural world can be marvelous, it is also filled with ethical horrors: predation, parasitism, fratricide, infanticide, disease, pain, old age and death — and that suffering (like joy) is built into the nature of things.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html
1) "Living things are indeed wonderfully complex, but altogether within the range of a statistically powerful, entirely mechanical phenomenon."
2) "- - - we are perfectly good animals, natural as can be and indistinguishable from the rest of the living world at the level of structure as well as physiological mechanism."
3) "- - - although the natural world can be marvelous, it is also filled with ethical horrors: predation, parasitism, fratricide, infanticide, disease, pain, old age and death — and that suffering (like joy) is built into the nature of things.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html
Monday, July 27, 2015
Theistic Evolution Quickly Debunked
"Where is the evidence that evolution is being guided by a god? Asking
for this evidence is a reasonable request. But it doesn't exist. No one
ever observes a god doing anything."
http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2015/07/my-challenge-to-intelligent-design.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FypxUn+%28Debunking+Christianity%29
http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2015/07/my-challenge-to-intelligent-design.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FypxUn+%28Debunking+Christianity%29
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Were Humans Inevitable?
Were humans inevitable? A somewhat lengthy, but fascinating, presentation of the history of life and humanity on Earth.
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/was-human-evolution-inevitable-or-a-matter-of-luck/
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/was-human-evolution-inevitable-or-a-matter-of-luck/
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