Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives Edited by Rama S. Singh, Costas B. Krimbas, Diane Paul, John Beatty ...
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Irwin Silverman
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Jan 30, 2002 4:43 pm
... This is a well expressed depiction of that particular view, but if it were subject to test, we would hypothesize less intra- and inter-group strife in the...
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Patrick Wilken
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Jan 30, 2002 10:32 pm
... PSYCHE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON CONSCIOUSNESS ... TOWARDS A SYNERGISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF SYNAESTHESIA: COMBINING CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL...
Female Embryos Exert Greater Influence On Pregnancy Female embryos exert a greater influence than male embryos over the hormone that nurtures early pregnancy,...
NIH funding boost - long overdue, says top neuroscientist 29 January 2002 16:44 GMT by Apoorva Mandavilli, BioMedNet News Even as President Bush announced a...
Race is a fault of science 29 January 2002 12:00 GMT by Bella Starling, BioMedNet News Race, and the role of science in its identification, focused a...
Wednesday January 30 5:23 PM ET Monkey Moves Computer Cursor by Thoughts Alone By E.J. Mundell NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may seem like science fiction,...
New Scientist Evolution: The triumph of an idea Carl Zimmer £25 Heinemann Reviewer: Palaeontologist Douglas Palmer recently contributed to Cassell's The ...
The New York Times January 31, 2002 TV REVIEW | 'INSIDE THE TEENAGE BRAIN' When the Prefrontal Cortex Acts Up By JULIE SALAMON You could get insight into your...
SNIP ... How would a teacher know if tolerant theists were attending his class on evolution? They wouldn't raise their religion in the discussion - evolution ...
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Ralph L Holloway
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Jan 31, 2002 9:07 am
... My statement wasn't that theists never show tolerance. My statement was that from my personal experience the intolerance for ideas has largely been fro...
... I think we need to remember that the potential for violence, intolerance, and other un-nice things toward fellow humans is a human characteristic. The ...
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Ralph L Holloway
rlh2@...
Jan 31, 2002 9:08 am
... Yes, as someone else pointed out, China, Russia, were examples of aetheist intolerance. But I was discussing indivuduals, not States, and for that matter,I...
While it is intriguing to try to picture the bronze-age mentality described briefly by Mackintosh, at some point we may want to consider that there are both...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Jan 31, 2002 9:09 am
... Victor I don't think so .. a good ideology can be shaped to justify any position - for e.g. look at the positions of liberal political ideology between the...
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David Mullen
DMullen@...
Jan 31, 2002 9:10 am
I agree that the actual underlying motivations for wars are typically pragmatic. However, I suspect it is likely much easier to launch wholesale efforts to...
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Ian Fraser
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Jan 31, 2002 9:10 am
Andrew Brown points out: <<And the incommensurability of religious truth claims is only an example of a much wider problem as between societies. Take, for...
The title by David Haig announced yesterday is one of five important new titles in the Rutgers Series in Human Evolution to be released during 2002. I am ...
BBC News Online Thursday, 31 January, 2002, 12:18 GMT Study unveils 'opposite' attraction People are highly attracted to images of themselves which have been...
... Though I'm not even sure I'd see religion as "a feature of frailty." I certainly have no interest in defending any particular religious faith or doctrine,...
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Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
benny@...
Jan 31, 2002 2:17 pm
About states and official religions: Most states throughout history have had an official religion. A few states (US, France, India) are constitutionally...
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Jeremy Bowman
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Jan 31, 2002 2:17 pm
... -- Why this concern with minute detail? It is like looking at a large painting from a distance of less than one inch. Like most writers who are prepared to...
William H. Calvin, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (University of Chicago Press, 2002), One of the most shocking...
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Stan Franklin
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Jan 31, 2002 6:50 pm
... I know and have a great deal of respect for Bill Calvin, and I look forward to reading, and learning from, his latest. That said, surely there must be more...
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Ian Montgomerie
ian@...
Jan 31, 2002 6:55 pm
... "Luck" would, pretty much by definition, come out to zero because it's a matter of events better or worse than average, and over time what you get is the...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Jan 31, 2002 7:08 pm
... My 1986 chapter in The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism reviewed the data of approximately 200 wars occurring from the late 1940s to the early 1980s and found...
... He has addressed this issue. I suggest you get a copy of his book, The Ascent of Mind. You can find it on his web site if you can't get a hard copy. You...
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C. Loring Brace
clbrace@...
Jan 31, 2002 8:52 pm
... Unfortunately I am afraid that he probably has not dealt with such matters. Calvin has found himself a niche in the popular book market, and is making a...
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Hiram Caton
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Jan 31, 2002 10:38 pm
The discussion touched off by a posting on Dawkins' militant irreligion shows once again that even among us atheists and agnostics, PERSONAL interest in the...
... Can you be more specific about Calvin's ideas that you find most objectionable and explain exactly what you think is "half-baked" about them? NKM...
