Science vs. Religion: (Chapter 5) (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, August 01, 2011, 02:14 (4659 days ago) @ xeno6696

David begins to go for the jugular rather early, combining what I suspect is his Adlerian background into building a case that we're smarter than we need to be.-My reading is early and very preliminary, but I have a simple question to ask:-Could it not be the case that as soon as our primitive ancestors--under pressure from the Ice Age you discuss--began to identify their geniuses and began a program of selection of their own? In a microevolutionary perspective, which you wholeheartedly support in the same chapter (when discussing your trip to the Galapgos--we'll need to chat about that sometime), why couldn't this have begun to speed things up much more quickly? Our co-evolution with animals also happened during the last ice age; the domestication of wolves happened during this exact same period. Who's to say that we didn't begin with our own first? -I think this question is a powerful one to consider: Man's intervention with dogs has lead from wolf to a Chihuahua, in a very short period of time. -More as I read...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"