We are in one galaxy called the Milky Way. When you look at the Milky Way’s next-door neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, your telescope is a time machine taking you back two and a half million years. Th...
Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their own continuation in the world? There would be plenty of time for improvement....
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of...
Perhaps, then, the words male and female have no general meaning.
Os livros de física podem ser complicados, mas eles, assim como os carros e os computadores, são produtos de objetos biológicos - cérebros humanos. Os objetos e os fenômenos que um livro de física des...
In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
A consequentialist or utilitarian is likely to approach the abortion question in a very different way, by trying to weigh up suffering. Does the embryo suffer? (Presumably not if it is aborted before...
If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. W...
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
در دنیا آدمهایی هستند که ناامیدانه تلاش در نپذیرفتن تکامل داروینی دارند. به نظر میرسد آنها به سه گروه تقسیم میشوند، آنهایی که به دلایل مذهبی میخواهند تکامل دروغ باشد. آنهایی که دلیلی برای انکار تک...
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a...
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue?
There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman. –VICTOR HUGO
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened
Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills.
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a they as opposed to a we...