A profound insight of natural selection (which actually started in the abiogenesis stage) is that life conforms to deal with the conditions in the already present environment; life is plastic to the environment.
You should read up on the environment of the early Earth, and see just how...
It isn't odd at all that we are suited for the existence we happen to live in; natural selection molds our traits to fit into the environment we find ourselves in.
I don't think the odds of life is as slim as you portray. Consider that there are billions of galaxies, with billions of stars...
What line are you looking for? A human is any member of our species, some use it more generally for any species within the genus Homo making Neanderthal and friends human too.
But you do not deny the fact that you are a mammal, and I doubt you would deny that you are human, the biological species known as Homo sapiens. Well these biological classifications are nested hierarchically with each stage known as a taxa, meaning that each more specific taxa (e.g. a species...
I think people have the right to form sovereign nations and defend themselves. Was it wrong for the Allied forces to go to war with Hitler? Is it wrong for the Kurds to physically defend themselves against ISIL?
What would your general strategy be if an army declared war on you?
I am not a pacifist, some people need to be stopped, violently if necessary.
<insert horrible regime that needed to be stopped>
War should be a last resort, but we must not shirk war's embrace either.
I think Sum of Awe does bring up an interesting point with animals. It is not inconceivable that some super-intelligent alien race would see us little differently than how we see domesticated animals, or wild animals that can be domesticated.
I don't see women as helpless, and I never said women feel better around men after an attempted rape, but I do recognize that men and women have different physical capabilities. Men are biologically designed to be more of a brawler than women, of course there is overlap, but in general men have...
So I've watched over an hour of Sarkeesian on youtube, and her analysis does seem rather out there. She keeps on saying she is looking at the big picture but all I see is a very narrow criticism.
It's like she doesn't understand that we are a sexually dimorphic species, and as such women are...
Senseless violence is always wrong, but what goes around comes around. White people have been doing that **** for generations to black people, and now they're getting even.
A collection of texts written by ancient Hebrews and early Christians over many generations. Religion was the cutting edge philosophy, ethics, law, and understanding of the world around them in the ancient days.
You certainly need to be familiar with some of it, more specifically...
My point exactly, science has replaced wizardry. We stopped using magic to explain things, and instead turned to the physical properties of the world.
Science grew out of multiple different fields, but as science grew it rejected the old ideas and became something else entirely.
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Modern medicine isn't wizardry, alchemy and medicine men have been replaced by science. Unless you think chemical reactions is wizardry, in which case I am a high level wizard around the beginning of July.