Category Archives: Biology

Losing my religion

Many people can’t imagine life without God. But I have soundly rejected the concept. In honor of Christmas, here’s why. Continue reading

Rebutting “The blood-stained century of evolution”

The theory of evolution is not responsible for Nazi bloodshed. Continue reading

Neuropsychology illuminates roots of human ethics

David Hume said humans, in observing pain, experience that pain, too. Therefore, we want to alleviate the pain of other people, to ameliorate the suffering it causes within us. This empathy for our fellow humans constitutes the basis for treating them decently. Hume’s best friend Adam Smith, in his 1759 work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, agreed that instinctual empathy helped birth human morality. He wrote: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his … Continue reading