Tag Archives: Evolution

A day of celebration.

Posted on April 9, 2020 by

This day 26 years ago Ailsa and I got married. 22 years and 3 days ago the title for this house changed into our name (with a mortgage, which has been gone a couple of years). Today is a special … Continue reading →

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Quora – Are humans confused as to their own free will?

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Are humans confused as to their own free will? [ 8/4/20 ] Necessarily, as there is no agreement about what it might mean. Many people are in a group that believes that all events are preceded by necessary causes. In … Continue reading →

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Quora – What does evolution act on?

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Quora – What does evolution act on? [ 5/4/20 ] Evolution, as in the modern synthesis of understandings of the process of evolution by natural selection, acts on replicators in environments through differential survival. Thus it requires something that can … Continue reading →

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Quora – Is there any alternative to Might is Right?

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Is there any alternative to Might is Right? (by this I ask is there any disproving this idea, even considering how Might isn’t right, but it determines who has control and therefore who has the right to control). [ 30/3/20 … Continue reading →

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Was there ever a point in time where humans lived safe and peacefully?

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Was there ever a point in time where humans lived safe and peacefully? [ 28/3/20 ] Depends what you mean. Certainly, in some places, at some times, conditions have been sufficiently benign that people could live safely together for many … Continue reading →

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Quora – Thought, thinking, and accumulated knowledge is an important tool …

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Thought, thinking, and accumulated knowledge is an important tool in the hands of human beings. But the entire living & non-living system of existence including existential processes functions without this man-made tool. What should mankind do? [ 26/3/20 ] Kind … Continue reading →

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How have improvements in technology influenced the development and review of the Modern Theory of Evolution?

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How have improvements in technology influenced the development and review of the Modern Theory of Evolution? [ 25/3/20 ] Hugely. The development of x-ray crystalography allowed Franklin to to develop images of DNA crystals that allowed Watson and Crick to … Continue reading →

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