Tag: humans
Progress in Defining “Being Alive”
I have long believed that “being alive” is the fundamental predicate to possessing even rudimentary intrinsic moral value.
It’s Unjust Patriarchy to Own a Pet!
Corey Lee Wrenn argues that what is done to an animal should be judged in the same fashion as if the same thing were done to a human.
In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks
That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation.
Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”
The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism.
How Did Religion “Evolve”?
It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion.