Using the blog to put together a book, gradually. If you want to come along for the ride then start below with the Introduction. INTRODUCTION “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” (these days more often referred to as the “Dunning-Kruger Effect”) has been the downfall of the human race since there was one, and […]
Suppose I had found an ape lying dead upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the ape happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer I had before given, that for anything I knew, the ape might have always been there. … There must have existed, at some time,
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YouTube comment threads are an embarrassing display of the ignorance of the world in the 21st century.
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Life is an exam paper with a series of questions. For some people the questions get easier towards the end, for others harder. You have to mark your own paper, there is no examiner. Pass mark is 50%, and no-one has ever scored 100%. Good luck.
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How wonderful to look up at Mars and know there are vehicles, made by humans, on its surface. How aweful to look up at Mars and know there are vehicles, made by humans, on its surface.
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Why the attacks on Science? Same reason as always. Homo sapiens is not a species that lives, like other animal species, in a rational way in a real world (one piece of evidence for this being that other animal species haven’t invented religions). Our belief systems, the set of things we believe, are derived from
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Imagine how much damage humans can do to Mars after landing
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Capitalism: system for running complex world just for profit
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