Month: March 2016
Your Personality Uploaded to a Robot Wouldn’t Be “You”
Transhumanism is a materialistic religion that seeks to attain the comforts provided by faith through belief in technology as savior.
Internal Constraints vs. External Pressures: The Revelations of Evo-Devo
Internal causal factors have played a far more prominent role in the actualization of evolutionary innovations than cumulative selection
“I Think We’re Alone Now”
Earth as a privileged planet and humankind as a privileged species fit together well with other lines of inference.
“Settled Science” and the Cambrian Explosion — Geologists Weigh In
Yesterday we considered explanations of the Cambrian explosion in light of one of two new papers in the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
In a Three-Way Radio Debate, Stephen Meyer Takes on a Chemist and a Biologist
So it was two against one, but no worries. Kudos to the pair from the University of Texas at El Paso for a civil, informative discussion.