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Category: Reason
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Much work is progressing around the world pertaining to abiogenesis. It is my hunch that we might be on the cusp of a major discovery. The beginning and the end is known, it is the middle that needs filling in. What elements had to come together and provide the impetus for initial formation? The thought…
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I do not fail to understand why Trump does what he does. He is, after all, beholding to a great number of very rich supporters. He has a major incentive to provide massive tax cuts for not only himself but his very wealthy constituents. One could say this would be a sound reason for adding…
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Is winning all there is? Has evolution betrayed humans by making all humans competitors? Does competition produce individuals that exhibit excessive selfishness? Is this competition the source of the “me first” syndrome? Not only did the first humanlike anthropoid have to compete with other species for food and shelter, it also had to compete with…
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I am not politically correct. The advantage of being a solitary figure rather than a member of a group is that you can be less affected by “groupthink”. This term seems to refer to members of a group conforming to the same views on issues, views which are not necessarily the correct views as pertains…
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The doctor tells me that my retina has become detached, in fact tearing, and as a result I have acquired one of the few emergency illnesses of the eye. He urges me, no orders me, to depart immediately to a surgical facility 60 or so miles to the south. Do not delay, he warns, do…
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Determinism: a : a theory or doctrine that acts of the will (see 2will 4a), occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are causally determined by preceding events or natural laws b : a belief in predestination. Does this theory render free will to be nothing but an illusion? Does this mean that nothing…
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Pretense, it is all a pretense. The man or woman pretends that they are children of god. They have no evidence, yet, they pretend to know they will have eternal life. Evidence does not matter, only faith matters. How ripe for the picking they are indeed. The black man pretends that only white men can…
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My vision of the perfect creature could not be one manufactured by evolution… yet, how else? Unlike the human being, saddled by millions of years of ongoing gradual change imprinting along the way savagery of vast scale upon the genetic code, the perfect creature I envision would lack the greed, the selfishness, the barbaric violence…
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All of the gods from all of the world’s religions do not exist. The so-called radical left is a near mirror image of the so-called radical right. All human groups, whether religious or secular, eventually develop ideological beliefs that have no foundation in fact. Life only has the purpose you give it. Evolution has made…
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Feelings… human feelings, that’s the problem here. I am experiencing increasing frustrations in my dealings with humans. They fail to see the logic of my arguments. It seems they deal more in feelings than logic. Why should this cause me ire? Their opinions, their positions on issues do not affect my positions. I do not…
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