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  • Why religious beliefs?

    Continuing from parts one and two...Why do so many humans believe in the supernatural? Why do they accept as true stories that involve unbelievable tales? Pascal Boyer consider this issue from a cognitive-evolutionary …

  • Lies....

    I like this post (link): To a creationist, the idea that life was shaped by "intelligent design" instead of "natural selection" might sound like a sports team to cheer for. To a biologist, plausibly arguing that an or…

  • Accepting and embracing evolution

    One of the reasons that some people have been reluctant to accept evolutionary theory is that they don't like the implications of it. I don't know if there is a name for this type of cognitive bias, but I'll call it Imp…

  • The Trial

    Prosecutor: We know you're guilty. Why don't you just confess? Defendant: You can't prove it. Prosecutor: Sure we can. Look at the fossil evidence, for example. Defendant: What about missing links? Even Da…

  • Young earth creationists, part II

    Today I'll focus on evolution. A creationist argument against it is here. Lack of Transitional Fossils. Charles Darwin wrote, "Lastly, looking not to any one time, but to all time, if my theory be true, numberless i…

  • Fighting evolution

    Our emotions, desires and even how we think are a result of those traits making people more likely to have kids (kids who survive and reproduce). It's our ancestry. The trait-specific gene(s) could have become prevalent …

  • We're all crazy

    Scientology (from wikipedia): In Dianetics, Hubbard proposed that the cause of "aberrations" in a human mind was an accumulation of pain and unconscious memories of traumatic incidents, some of which predated the life …

  • Darwin discovered god

    Let's get back to this great essay (link) that I discussed in an earlier post (link) Why is Nature cruel? You, a human, can look at an Ichneumon wasp, and decide that it's cruel to eat your prey alive. You can decide…

  • Science vs. Religion

    This post points out that people seem to value information more if it was hard to obtain.If the Great Secret of Natural Selection, passed down from Darwin Who Is Not Forgotten, was only ever imparted to you after you pai…

  • Evolution

    I like this essay by Eliezer Yudkowsky. He starts off by pointing out the following:But when you look at all the apparent purposefulness in Nature, rather than picking and choosing your examples, you start to notice thi…

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