Blogs Posts on "Darwinism"
A Ranting (or Raving) From The Musings of Leon Jackson. by Face Booker - Takin It On The Chin on Nov 10, 2009I rose at 6am this morning unable to sleep after the events from yesterday. I had toast with marmalade for breakfast and ate it with Mum. A little after 9 I returned to my room and started work . I found a rant from Leon as i was going through his st...
NEWS: Creationism vs. Darwinism in Rap by Religion Compass Exchanges on Sep 6, 2009Ever since the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, there have been heated discussions between those who believe in divine creation and those who favour the theory of evolution. Although, it may be argued that the two are not mutually exc...
Darwinism:What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 4) by xenophon-19 on Aug 1, 2009Looking now at altruism we will assume that we can have free will, and will be asking the next question, which is – can our choices be moral? The two conditionals I will look at are: if we are only the result of natural selection, altruism is an il...
Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 3) by xenophon-19 on Jul 25, 2009This leads us onto the next divide on the scope of Darwinism, dualism/materialism and the problem of determinism. In both above views of materialism, humans are only products of forces that existed before us, so we cannot be responsible. The implicat...
Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 2) by xenophon-19 on Jul 18, 2009There are certain conditions under which people are not normally blamed for something they have done. These are quite familiar: mental incapacity, illness, provocation, self-defence, insanity etc. In some of these cases we regard blame and punishment...
Pint-sized philosophy: The Anthropic Principle by xenophon-19 on Jul 14, 2009(This is part of a series looking at key philosophical ideas, and explaining them in under 200 words) The Anthropic principle (AKA The Fine Tuning argument), is a modern version of the argument from design. It states that the conditions for life in t...
Darwinism? What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? by xenophon-19 on Jul 11, 2009Before understanding what the implications of Darwinism are for the ideas of responsibility and altruism, I will consider what our ideas about both these terms actually mean. Very briefly, responsibility is the capacity for free will, that we are ind...
Supremacy of Christ Vs Christer Sturmark & Co by Michaels Blogg on Jun 21, 2009Terroja Lee Kincaid aka "The Amazing Atheist" är en av youtube's mest populära ateisterLäser man lite interjuvar kring Terroja så ser man att hans väg till ateisme handlar det hela mycket om hans besvikelse om att jultomten inte finns. När man...
Pint-sized philosophy: The argument from design by xenophon-19 on Jun 10, 2009(This is part of a series looking at key philosophical ideas, and explaining them in under 200 words) The design argument, also known as the teleological argument – the world is so complex it must have been designed and has a purpose. An argu...
Micro-philosophy: The argument from design by xenophon-19 on Jun 10, 2009The design argument, also known as the teleological argument – the world is so complex it must have been designed and has a purpose. An argument from analogy – just like a watch has intricate parts made by a watchmaker so something as c...
