Intelligent Design: ‘Forcing’ Evolution in Avengers: Age of Ultron
[SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses the plot of Avengers: Age of Ultron in detail.] “I don’t want to hear the ‘Man Was Not Meant to Meddle’ medley” is a sentiment […]
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The Mathematics of Morality
By Professor Lance Linke Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence I’ve wondered for quite some time if there is a relationship between mathematics and morality. These fields have often been considered to […]
The 6 Ways Altruism Could Have Evolved: Part 2, Commitment & Sex
In my first post in this three part series I focused on the first 2 of 6 ways – reciprocity and kin selection – that evolution by natural selection without […]
The 6 Ways Altruism Could Have Evolved: Part 1, Kinship & Reciprocity
I’m getting pretty tired of hearing Ayn Rand fanatics, economics undergrads and those who misinterpret the ‘selfish’ gene talk about how egoistic the human race is and how the existence of […]
3 Explanations of the Groundings of Naturalistic, Non-Theistic Ethics
In a previous post about Cultural Relativism I proposed 4 arguments for relativism and then argued that none of them really work. It’s not that I had any arguments for […]
Science Isn’t ‘Straight From The Gut’: A Response to Creationism
By Julien Musolino Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University In a recent piece entitled Creationism Has Merit, Daily Targum columnist Ed Reep explains that “[he] just want[ed] to show the public […]
Darwin vs. Hitler: Why Evolution Makes No Comment On Ethics
I have no idea how many times I have heard that the motivation for Hitler’s genocide lay at least partly in Darwinism. Ben Stein’s Expelled focused for a while on this issue […]
Applied Sentience 