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Natural selection isn’t dominant selective force at the moment. Moles to humans.

Natural selection isn’t dominant selective force at the moment. Moles to humans.

Moles living underground may have been our ancestors who survived the K-T extinction event 65 million years ago. But today the selective force isn’t the gradual evolution of species to fit new environments, nor those changes being adapted to new uses and stimulating a whole new direction for the survival of the fittest, nor the species’ luck of having spread far and wide and having some members…

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Novacene by James Lovelock - more thoughts

Novacene by James Lovelock – more thoughts

The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by the originator of the Gaia theory missed the most important thing. Why is our human species filled with wonderful abilities that don’t seem to have much traction in the processes of natural selection? No condemnation here. Charles Darwin was flummoxed by that enigma, as was his grandson Charles Galton Darwin in his book, The Next Million Years. The great…

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The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson - review

The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson – review

The measure of man and everything else.

As always, a book by E. O. Wilson is a pleasant experience because he has a deep kindly wisdom of his subjects based upon a lifetime of being in the center of his scientifically inclined intellectual world. The goal of his creative instinct is to “translate the previously unperceived into the limited audiovisual world of human consciousness. … the advance…

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The single best idea anyone has ever had.

The single best idea anyone has ever had.

EDGE.COM has a fine series of articles under the title – 2013: What *should* we be worried about. In the article by Helena Cronin, in the fourth paragraph, she states, “Darwinian science has high status in this world of objective knowledge as perhaps, ‘the single best idea anyone has ever had’. And, probably uniquely in the history of science, it is unlikely to be superseded; biology will be…

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Atheists for Jesus by Richard Dawkins - a critique

Atheists for Jesus by Richard Dawkins – a critique

Today I was reading a Richard Dawkins article which pondered over the problem of why people are so nice to one another. He wrote, “From a rational choice point of view, or from a Darwinian point of view, human super niceness is just plain dumb.” He believes that all animals live in a world of pure self-interest, and humans, being animals, would naturally take every opportunity to steal everything…

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