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Two logical fallacies that we must avoid | Psychology Today Blogs
It is not possible to make either the naturalistic or the moralistic fallacy if scientists never talk about ought. Scientists – real scientists – do not draw moral conclusions and implications from the empirical observations they make, and they are not guided in their observations by moral and political principles. Real scientists only care about what is, and do not at all care about what ought to be.
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Without God - The New York Review of Books
Brilliant, brilliant essay on the advance of science and the consequent weakening of religious belief. Written by Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg.
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Born To Run | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine
Biomechanical research reveals a surprising key to the survival of our species: Humans are built to outrun nearly every other animal on the planet over long distances.
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The Moral Instinct - New York Times
Excellent, thought-provoking essay on psychology of morality.
Nice comment on moralization of human-induced climate change debate in penultimate paragraph.
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Why people believe weird things about money - Los Angeles Times
"I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine" only works if I know you will respond with something approaching parity. The moral sense of fairness is hard-wired into our brains and is an emotion shared by most people and primates tested for it, includin
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Race, genes, and intelligence. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
Evidence for and against a genetic theory of racial differences in IQ.
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Charles Darwin: Religious belief
By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is suppoted, -- that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, -- that the me
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Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds
Comparing it to evolution, an edit of Wikipedia might be considered equivalent to a genetic mutation. A mutation, of course, is non-directed...that is, "random." It could be bad or good, but most of the time it is bad. If we were simply the average of all
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Our Biotech Future - by Freeman Dyson
Thought provoking stuff from author of 'The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet'
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The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
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Collins: Why this scientist believes in God - CNN.com
An emotional quest for certainty and tranquility, no matter how beneficial to the individual, does not a factual system make. I am glad that Dr. Collins has the comfort of his beliefs, but his reasoning does not sound very scientific.
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Is God an Accident?
Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe. Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have di
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