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Cognitive Conditioning and the Distortion of Reality
After following the discussion about evolution versus design for the past few decades, I have noticed a common trend.
Pre-Adaptation: In Evolutionary Explanations, Too Much Serendipity
“The bombardier beetle’s ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be lying around. That’s often how evolution works.”
No, Trees Are Not People Too
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too.
Jonah Goldberg, William F. Buckley Jr., and Evolution
Conceding deep philosophical and scientific premises is one common reason that conservatives lose important arguments.
Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers
Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both.