Category: Darwinism
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Baboon Utopia
Baboons live in small troops that are hierarchical and patriarchal. Such a social organisation has served the baboons well for their two million year history. Nevertheless, this concerns Sapolsky as he claims it leads to stress in the baboons.
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Stealth Religions and Atheism
If, as a scientist, he realizes that a religion promotes group identity and mutual cooperation, not to mention individual benefits, then is he morally obliged to remain silent about its real (according to him) origins? What if the promotion of atheism brings about social turmoil and decadence?
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Esoteric Darwinism
There are the diehard materialists who reject the argument a priori. The objection is to the introduction of “mysterious” forces like mind, teleology, and so on. I suppose that familiarity breeds contempt, since gravity, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, the big bang, the origin of life, etc., are themselves quite mysterious.
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Mind and Cosmos
Being a review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, by Thomas Nagel. A couple of weeks ago I watched the notorious atheist and Darwinist Richard Dawkins interviewed by a non-descript host on a cable news network. Since the context was a discussion of Ben Carson’s belief…
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Social Surgery
Does society have the right to determine its genetic future? An anti-Christian philosopher and a prominent Christian theologian consider the issue.
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Tenets of Darwinism
Darwinism is based on two fundamental tenets: Survival of the fittest Variation in a population is the result of random genetic mutations The current version is better called neo-Darwinism because Darwin did not know about genes. As Karl Popper pointed out, tenet (1) is really a tautology, not however in the sense that it is…
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Fruit Flies and Evolution
Scientists performed the following experiment with two colonies of fruit flies. The first colony was allowed to breed without interference. In the second, the flies were selectively bred to produce a superior colony, that is, it “evolved”. The interesting thing is that when male flies from the evolved colony were introduced into the first colony,…