Philosophy & Ethics
- Is Man Evil?
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I do believe that a vast majority of men and women are evil and that furthermore we really ought to deal with this fact rather than being politically correct and ‘believing’ that all Men are inherently good. On what do I base my saying that Man is evil? ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 27 2009 - 11:35am
- Sad Of The Earth
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SAD OF THE EARTH Ayad Gharbawi As thinking creatures we must evolve mentally towards achieving a humanity within ourselves for whereas physical growth proceeds unguided mental growth requires a continual and firm guidance on the part of ourselves with the ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 28 2009 - 10:36am
- Is The Mind Unique For Each Person?
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IS THE MIND UNIQUE FOR EACH PERSON? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 28 2009 - 10:50am
- David Chalmers And The Singularity That Will Probably Not Come
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David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like hu ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Nov 6 2009 - 11:04am
- The Fingerprints Of God
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I found the premise of Barbara Bradley Hagerty's new book " Fingerprints of God " quite intriguing. The author, raised as a Christian Scientist, attempts to look into alternative religions and science to see if her faith is justified. Ther ...
Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Nov 11 2009 - 10:30am
- Welcome to Moral Bytes
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This blog is my way of looking at moral values from an evolutionary perspective. If we agree that evolution explains human behavior, then it must be true of moral behavior as well. Today I will post the first two essays in a series that argues for taking ...
Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:30pm
- Birth of a Movement
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(Essay 1 in Series Evolution&Morality) Can you believe it? It has been a year since a majority of Americans voted for and elected Barak Obama as president, shattering once and for all the proverbial marble ceiling. ...
Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:40pm
- Gods Unvanquished
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(Essay 2 in Evolution&Morality Series) The atheistic blowback to the overbearing religiosity of the Bush era has been something of a boon for the publishing industry. In an uncertain and weakening economy, they discovered a new profitable genre almost ...
Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:47pm
- Comparing The Animate With The Inanimate
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One of the key points that perpetually surfaces in the Intelligent Design debate is comparing animate with inanimate objects and attempting to draw comparisons or conclusions 1. This becomes more pronounced when we begin to consider the role of less tangi ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Nov 13 2009 - 1:58pm
- The role of Science and Technology in Building a More Equitable and More Sustainable World: Take II
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I recently attempted to write an article with the above title for a writing competition that I randomly decided to enter. I have to admit that I failed miserably. It’s a pretty hard topic to write about (or at least I thought so). A few months later, I sti ...
Blog Post - Sonia Buckley - Nov 13 2009 - 11:03pm
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