The effects of religion you cited are reported and discussed (with the obvious evolutionary implications) in recent writings on religious behavior. E.g. ...
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Paul Gross
prghome
Oct 30, 2003 7:28 pm
In a message dated 10/29/03 4:55:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I would be very grateful for a citation to the Dawkins statement that Darwinism proves the...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 30, 2003 7:30 pm
Michael, You said, "Why create even more opposition [to Darwinism] by undertaking the unwinnable argument that Darwinism proves the non-existence of God?" ...
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Peter Karl Jonason
peterkarljon...
Oct 30, 2003 7:31 pm
It seems to me that modern evolutionary theory is simply not compatible with religion. Evolution purports one story of MAN and religion purports a totally...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 30, 2003 7:32 pm
... From: "Jay R. Feierman" <jfeierman@...> To: "evol psychol" <evolutionary-psychology@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:13 PM ...
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Jeremy Bowman
bowmanthebard
Oct 30, 2003 7:32 pm
... -- Any individual theory has its own predictive power, maybe, but its explanatory power is part of a much larger "picture of the world" that consists of a...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 30, 2003 7:32 pm
Liza, In reference to your comments below, a mood is defined as "a specific readiness to act." Moods are not a categorization of behavior but they are a cause...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Oct 31, 2003 5:51 pm
October 30, 2003 Previous | Next From neuroscience to social science Institute of Medicine meeting links basic research, health policy, and Law and Order | By...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Oct 31, 2003 5:51 pm
Class Warrior Barbara Ehrenreich's Singular Crusade BY SCOTT SHERMAN On July 9, the Raleigh News & Observer printed a full-page advertisement representing the...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Oct 31, 2003 5:51 pm
View from the lab: A blast of hot air from bruised egos By Prof Steve Jones (Filed: 29/10/2003) There were nasty rumblings and blasts of hot air as the last...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Oct 31, 2003 5:51 pm
Volume CXXXIII, Number 7 October 31, 2003 Lecturer ponders morality of genealogy PRIYA SRIDHAR STAFF WRITER Eric T. Juengst, Associate Professor of Bioethics...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Oct 31, 2003 5:51 pm
Feminism as an Educational Virus October 31, 2003 ... by Bernard Chapin ... Although I am paid decent money to teach a class once a quarter at a Chicago...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Oct 31, 2003 5:51 pm
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Rules versus Similarity Distinction by Emmanuel M. Pothos ...
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David Smith
iadnamad111
Oct 31, 2003 8:36 pm
Steve There can be no doubt that Freud thought that sex, in the broad sense of the derivation of pleasure from the stimulation of bodily zones, is extremely ...
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David Smith
iadnamad111
Oct 31, 2003 8:36 pm
Steve You claim that 'Freud's influential followers did not embrace the death instinct' and 'the idea was largely ignored by the people who developed and led...
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Herbert Gintis
hgintis
Oct 31, 2003 8:37 pm
Here is the best I could do by surfing the web a bit: The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design,...
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steve reiss
sreiss0410
Oct 31, 2003 8:37 pm
I consider this a misleading account of classical Freudian psychoanalysis. Go the subject index of influential books on psychoanalysis published from 1920 to...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 31, 2003 8:38 pm
... a ... a ... have ... modules, ... function. ... of ... RKS: This assumes that moods are generated by actual needs, such as hunger: "the 'mood' to eat"....
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Alison Huneke
amh0901
Oct 31, 2003 8:38 pm
... Except that nowadays schools cannot just 'get a label' on children and 'dump' them anywhere. They can however permanently exclude children and it is...
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Rich Faussette
richfaussette
Oct 31, 2003 8:39 pm
... I got a number of private emails about this, so I guess I should state the obvious. My statement must not be construed as an argument for the existence of...
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Adam Gifford
melissa91311
Oct 31, 2003 8:40 pm
Rick and Jay, I meant to respond to your comments earlier, but I had to take a brief trip out of town, from which I was recalled by the information that my ...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 31, 2003 8:40 pm
Dear list members, In my last posting to the group an hour ago, I realized that I failed to qualify what I said about emergent property by saying, "The...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 31, 2003 8:41 pm
Robert, Again, thank you for your thoughtful comments. As a clarifying definitional point, although I defined behavior as "structure moving in space and time"...
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Paul Gross
prghome
Oct 31, 2003 8:41 pm
Many thanks for your labor in making this selection. I have seen all of these at one time or another, and I agree that they're strong statements, capable of...
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
eliezer_2001
Oct 31, 2003 8:42 pm
... Proving the untruth of any specific religion is straightforward; the universe was not created in six days, etc., and no amount of special pleading will...
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Aleks Jakulin
aleks_jakulin
Oct 31, 2003 8:43 pm
In discussion of religion it is often helpful to decompose it into several components: 1. the dogma (morality) 2. the rationale for the dogma, preventing...
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Jeremy Bowman
bowmanthebard
Oct 31, 2003 8:43 pm
... -- All philosophers mean when they say someone has a "belief" is that he thinks something (usually a "proposition") is true. Belief is thus a ubiquitous...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Oct 31, 2003 8:43 pm
... Thank you for your informative reply, but I think your statement, above, characterizes the basic difference between our perspectives. I would say, "the...
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Liza May
lizamayyyy
Oct 31, 2003 8:43 pm
CANBERRA - A 5,200-year-old iceman likely didn't collect many stamps on his prehistoric passport. The iceman, known as Oetzi, was found frozen in a glacier...
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Carmi Turchick
tribalypredi...
Oct 31, 2003 8:44 pm
While I agree with most of the point here about modern "Feminism"; in the college setting I dont see it as a virus, rather I see it as a surrogate psychological...
