Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.
The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.
When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened. ’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.
I dont think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.
Behave simply and hold on to purity.
I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.