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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
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In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…
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Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
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The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges,…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to…
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things…
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I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver.…
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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
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All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of…
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The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits…
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Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago…
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