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- Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks…
- The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions…
- I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to…
- Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds…
- What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other…
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