Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’
Evolution of the intellect
September 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: I was struck by a concatenation of thoughts yesterday (honestly!). I had just finished reading a summary of Karl Popper’s thought (the greatest scientific philosopher ever, in my ‘umble opinion; a balanced synopsis appears here, with useful links to other sites), I’d just seen an article on psychological research into the basis for neurolinguistic programming (again, good summary in Wikipedia), and I was watching the dog dreaming on the sofa.
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Evolutionary mysteries
What with everybody celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th, I find myself musing once again on the mystery that is evolution. While creationism has always seemed ridiculous to me – the equivalent of holding a double-barrelled shotgun to your head and pulling one of the two triggers – I have to say that the randomist view of evolution that irritatingly self-satisfied men such as Richard Dawkins witter on about also offends me.
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