At the age of three and a half the Taung Child was eaten by an eagle. The evidence is that damage marks to the eye sockets of the fossil are identical to marks made by modern eagles on modern monkeys...
Areas where there is a lack of data, or a lack of understanding, are automatically assumed to belong, by default, to God.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile. Until recently this was true of man too. Most animals die in child...
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosi...
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe...
Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonethe...
As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, ‘Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil thi...
Always devise your rules as if you didn’t know whether you were going be at the top or the bottom of the pecking order.
هرقدر هم که عمرمان کوتاه باشد، اگر ثانیهای از آن را هدر دهیم یا صرف گلایه از این کنیم که زندگی عبث و بیحاصل است یا اگر (مانند کودکان) بگوییم که زندگی خستهکننده است، دشنام درشتی به تریلیونها نفری د...
We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Though I have known it for years, I...
As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ' Michael Shermer, In The Science of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stop...