There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.
If you’re a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, Well, that’s the way he did it, I’ll tell you right back, that is just not reasonable, nor is it satisfactory. If we were p...
If the argument is, Well, that was all part of the plan, then I have to ask: How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense.
A woman came up to Michael Faraday after he performed this demonstration and asked: But, Mr. Faraday, of what use is it? Faraday famously replied, Madam, of what use is a newborn babe?
So long as we each focus only on our individual decisions and their short-term consequences, we will act like renters, not owners of this Earth.
I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.
When religions disagree about just creation, there is nothing to do but argue. When two scientists disagree about evolution, they confer with colleagues, develop theories, collect evidence, and arrive...
We can become a great generation that leaves our world—our home—in better shape than it is now while raising the quality of life for people everywhere. This will not be easy. We’ve already loaded the...
We can be a lot smarter and more capable than a lot of the technology doubters and climate deniers assume. The people who dismiss concerns about global warming seem to be the pessimists who would rath...
We are killing off species at the rate of about one per day. It is estimated that humans are driving species to extinction at least a thousand times faster than the otherwise natural rate.
Try this way of picturing a human lifespan. The National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys’ stadium holds 105,000 people. Now, imagine that you’re watching life go by down on the field, and every day y...
More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean.
Because methane is so powerful as a greenhouse gas, let’s phase it out as fast as we practically can, while we absolutely stop burning coal. It’s everything-all-at-once time. Coal, gas, oil … ultimate...
This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.
The takeaway message here, as Jablonski points out, is that there is no such thing as different races of humans. Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a product of our need for vita...
The essence of the evening was captured by a question from the audience. Someone asked: What would it take to change your worldview? My answer was simple: Any single piece of evidence. If we found a f...
Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.