What it tried to replace? IT = evolution doesn't try anything. It is a process whereby organisms adapt to environments and circumstances. REPLACE = to...
Living beings didn't go extinct for 3.7 billion years. That may be unlikely, but if it hadn't happened, you would not be here to question that it happ...
You believe that? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/murder-rate-by-country https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/05/death-penal...
That's what it is. So are most humans. You're a wee bit behind on your programming savvy. But, in any case, I was talking about a UN type government, ...
Only because those people do not comprehend the time-scale, the rate of reproduction and mutation in one-celled organisms and the reproductive advanta...
Yes, especially the ruling elite, who were not above reproach, but didn't like to be reproached. They were afraid that, being popular with young men, ...
I think Athena doesn't understand governance with an uncorruptibe, non-ambitious, impartial, hate- and grudge-free, literally selfless infinitely know...
Nothing. I don't fight anymore. That doesn't mean I've become deaf and blind and too stupid to make predictions from what has been and what is to what...
By some people. Not me. Just because there are lots of examples from their writings, I'm not letting the clerics suborn yet another word for their exc...
In that case, all the workers - menial, skilled, clerical, service, marketing, legal and executive get about 50%, not divided evenly, of course: some ...
I mean we'll make ourselves and the majority of other species extinct, or near enough, before we get anywhere close. When our civilization collapses -...
It does say "or political" as a kind of BTW, which would astonish a lot of freedom-fighters and revolutionary heroes. You can get killed for demanding...
I like this summary. It would certainly be the ultimate in direct, equal participation in decision-making. I don't much like the prospect of becoming ...
Okay. I meant that the curiosity drives investigation, even when it has no particular end in mind. You want to know what's down a dark alley, not beca...
Of course he was. He was 70 years old, probably didn't fancy facing life as an exile, and by the scanty accounts, did fancy thumbing his nose at the e...
Science is a manifestation of human aspiration and curiosity. It is not always intentional or directed; its products are not always functional. In hor...
That's a good way of putting it. Some psyches are (innately ?) more fragile than others; and some are subjected to a more intense barrage of crazy-mak...
Sorry. I didn't realize. You went to a lot of trouble and I should have paid closer attention. Of course, the explanation is very like the more concis...
Nevertheless, that post you quoted and disputed was a direct response to: I didn't have one. I already knew that people tend to resort to magical thin...
You are seeing precisely what you want to see. People are always putting some person in power, and the person in power always abuses it. You vaunt "ou...
Just so. Only, most of those interpretations are not wise; they're just PR for the doctrine of their choice. Here's what actually happened: Over many ...
So, how does that relate to the question: Why has science, which explains so much, not displaced religion? Exactly what I did. I was comparing neither...
Some good questions there. I will take them seriously. There is no 'point' to life. It just is. As long as an individual finds his or her life worth l...
I know, and it's a natural impulse exercised by many modern people who are familiar with the gods of current institutional religions but unfamiliar wi...
That's from the article; I didn't say it. I heard the music, though: it was rather dull, with none of Beethoven's spirit. Of course, the computer only...
You trust whom you choose to trust. It doesn't need to be prophet, verbose or taciturn; it can be a mentor, a guru, bumper-sticker, life-coach, scoutm...
They exist in direct perception, familial (or intimate) interaction, social context and life-time. They are also based in instinct, emotion, thought a...
The bible as we know it today is a deeply flawed document of many origins, some of them suspect if not yet proven fraudulent, and some that should not...
I think that summary inaccurately reduces all mental illness to two dimensions, whereas I believe the large group of emotional and cognitive malfuncti...
Good. That means nobody needs to listen to anybody, because only those who do not speak speak truth; truth is silence. Yes, I like that! It's just mys...
What makes a prophet, if not his words? We are all prophets, then, partaking of the same reality, describing it each in a different way. The most genu...
There is some distinction between 'ancient civilizations' and 'tribal cultures', and again between 'prehistoric humans' and 'transitional hominids'. T...
The message of biblical prophets. Their god can do no wrong, so if something is wrong, it must be down to the sinners. The god listens to prayers, so ...
Of course they were human. They were characters in the stories told by humans. The gods of giraffes would have long necks and, if Montesquieu was any ...
Sungod, yes - or probably. Only god, no. He had parents, a wife and kids, as well as colleagues. As far as I recall, yes. With Akhenaten as the only m...
Not really. Religion predates the invention of writing by about 30,000 years. Before writing were oral traditions - stories of origin, stories of hero...
I just had a bucket of cold water poured over me. I watched and episode of The Nature of Things, called The Machine that Feels, about AI Seems we're b...
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