The American Association for the Advancement of Science website reports: The primate brain is ‘pre-adapted’ to face potentially any situation Scientists have shown how the brain anticipates all of the new situations that it may encounter in a lifetime by… Read More ›
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The Idealist View of Reality
In terms of Western philosophy I am an unapologetic Idealist and Keith Ward is my favourite living philosopher. This article explains what the Idealist hypothesis is all about and why materialism is just not up to scratch. The Idealist View… Read More ›
Jonathan Brown on the existence of Jinn and the theory of evolution
I find Brown’s reply really helpful
Do chimps believe in God?
Brother Paul “Bilal” WIlliams called my attention to a science article in the “Independent”, reporting the recent discovery of Chimpanzees in West Africa which have been throwing rocks against trees and throwing them into gaps inside, leading to piles of rocks. Those rocks… Read More ›
Today ‘a bright light stepped into the darkness and changed this world forever’
Sir Isaac Newton born 25 December 1642 Although born into an Anglican family, by his thirties Newton held a Christian faith that, had it been made public, would not have been considered orthodox by mainstream Christianity. By 1672 he had… Read More ›
A visitor to Speaker’s Corner gives his first impressions of the place
Today I met up with Ranj a new friend from Sweden who is visiting London (and Speakers Corner) for the very first time. His English is perfect so we were able to converse and join in with some of the debates… Read More ›
Remarkable nature: Mechanical gears in jumping insects
Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect – the plant-hopper Issus – showing that ‘evolution’ developed interlocking cogs long before we did. for more info:… Read More ›
Babies are born with a grasp of physics, researchers claim
yep, humans are just random products of pure chance lol: reblogged from today’s Independent Babies have an innate understanding of the way the world works and will pay more attention to objects if they appear to defy the basic laws… Read More ›
New book: Images, evolution and fraud
Book review reblogged from New Scientist Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, evolution, and fraud by Nick Hopwood Published by: University of Chicago Press Price: $45 (Image: Paul D. Stewart/SPL) Some of the most iconic images in biology hold a dark secret. Haeckel’s… Read More ›
You think there’s a multiverse? Get real
From today’s New Scientist COSMOLOGY is in crisis. Recent experiments have given us an increasingly precise narrative of the history of our universe, but attempts to interpret the data have led to a picture of a “preposterous universe” that eludes… Read More ›
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