Author: David Zeigler
Religious Belief from Dreams?
“Now if there is one thing about dreams that everyone should know by now, it’s that they can seem very real.” —John W. Loftus “Untutored tribes have many good intellectual reasons as to why living people have souls which can leave the body and which possess supernatural powers. First of all is sleep, and …
Those Supposed Aliens Might Be Worms
“There is nothing in natural selection that allows you to predict any particular pattern that it might generate.” —Henry Gee “Life is not oriented towards increasing complexity, nor is it fated to become ever more complex.” —Alexandre Meinesz When most people hear the word aliens, as in life from other worlds, they immediately …
In What Version of Evolution Do You Believe?
Before the reader complains: yes, the word believe, as in taking something on faith, is appropriate to the title because it is clear that many who say they “accept” evolution do in fact believe in a version of evolution that is not empirically based. It is true that even scientists “believe” that empirical objective evidence …