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  • You are in my Prayers

    I read your article, ''What I've learned from debating religious people around the world'' with fascination. To provide you with some insight I am what is commonly called an evangelical Christian, but could not be accurately labeled as a full Calvinist. I try my best to communicate in a manner that saves others from perdition and I likewise strive ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Steve Carlock on October 29, 2009

  • Didnt Show "How They Do It" In Turkey

    This piece was remarkable in several ways, including its ideological and cultural idiosyncracies lacking intellectual depth. First, if one claims to explain ''how they do it'', then one should actually elucidate the fundamental controversy. Harun Yahya promotes ''Islamic creationism''? Why wasn't there a reasonable intellectual survey of ...
    Posted to How They Do It by Usama3 on October 27, 2009

  • Scientific Laws

    William Saletan says this: ''Natural selection has become a tremendous tool for understanding biology. But it wasn't the first kind of science we invented, and it won't be the last.'' Natural Selection is usually seen as a theory rather than a tool. Theories are useful for understanding aspects of the facts and combinations of facts that ...
    Posted to Human Nature by dfield on August 26, 2009

  • The most interesting edge

    Maybe the most interesting areas to consider are the edges between science and metaphysics - that gray areas where patterns and groups of patterns exist. Not big picture universal truths, just small truths to be found here and there. Cultural truths that emerge and are duplicated and lost again only to be found later in new locations - evolution ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Craig Hibberd on August 22, 2009

  • Asking if people or good or bad is not the right question

    It seems that social scientists frequently get ahead of themselves. ''Good or bad'' is not the right question; with the knowledge we have of evolution we should not be using science to try and answer it. The question should be what evolutionary purpose, or cultural purpose, the types of human social interactions possibly served our ancestors and ...
    Posted to Books by eilonwy002 on August 19, 2009

  • Darwinian Happiness

    Searching the Internet ain't such a bad thing when you look at it from an evolutionary perspective. By this articles logic (which is inevitably evolutionary) ''seeking'' information necessarily enhances our fitness. The more information gathered, the more knowledgeable and prepared one is for future situations etc....Granted it seems this ...
    Posted to Science by informedlate on August 15, 2009

  • evolution and progress

    There have been some very powerful and deep attempts to ''reconcile'' a religious world view with Darwinian evolution. Speaking as a religious person who works with the dying and prays with my community whenever I can, I think there is a problem that recurs in many of the works on this I've seen so far. Basically, we tend to confuse ...
    Posted to Human Nature by rabbigershon on August 13, 2009

  • Flawed Analogy with Today's Hunter/Gatherers

    Perhaps the hunter gathers of Cameroon are small in stature today. But there are some missing factors here which show today's hunters of Cameroon cannot be compared to hunters of Germany 35,000 years ago. Plus, this article missed some points, perhaps to cater to the politically correct facade that is modern American womanhood. First, the ...
    Posted to Explainer by Usama3 on May 18, 2009

  • Evolutionary Psychology - Problems can be found anywhere

    If you look at the extremes of any topic then you will inevitably find some flawed ideas. The Idea of modules is the perfect example. When most Evolutionary Psychologists talk about modules they don't mean a specific brain structure that does a job. They mean that different areas within the brain operate to perform the procedure. Therefore there ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Armi89 on April 4, 2009

  • Designer Dogs

    On the bright side, it's the best example of Darwin at work that we have. The only difference is that we're the ones making the decisions instead of the ambient environment random chance. Over generations we have selectively bred the characteristics we dislike out of dogs and promoted the ones we do like. Natural selection does the same thing ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Ashman on March 4, 2009
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