Darwiniana

The abortion issue is completely confused on both sides. Christian theology never got straight on the issue of the soul, and modern secular humanists deny the reality of ‘soul’ altogeth…

Source: soul questions…//With SCOTUS Set to Hear Abortion Case, Anti-Choice Groups Prepare to Enact ‘Post-Roe Strategy’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The abortion issue is completely confused on both sides. Christian theology never got straight on the issue of the soul, and modern secular humanists deny the reality of ‘soul’ altogeth…

Source: soul questions…//With SCOTUS Set to Hear Abortion Case, Anti-Choice Groups Prepare to Enact ‘Post-Roe Strategy’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History

We had a post yesterday on free will, citing Alternet, but this essay shows that the research the article pointed to has been challenged and that the issue of free will has not been refuted by neur…

Source: Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No | Mind Matters – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The academic world has finally produced some critics of Darwin, but as this review shows, the world of biology is so confused the critiques can’t register. The reviewer here becomes so sophis…

Source: picking holes in…Picking Holes in the Concept of Natural Selection | BioScience | Oxford Academic – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Using “genotypic scores” could level the playing field in schools, Kathryn Paige Harden argues.

Source: Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden – The Washington Post

Solving the mysteries of scent

Source: The Odor of Things

There are so few wild ocelots in the US that the cats are becoming inbred, with a bad prognosis for their ultimate survival. But researchers are perfecting ways to get new genes into the population.

Source: Scientist at work: Endangered ocelots and their genetic diversity may benefit from artificial insemination

Source: The active grandparent hypothesis: Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans | PNAS

Source: What scientists learned when they peered into an octopus’ brain – Alternet.org

Basically, during the Axial Age (800-300 BCE) some break-through thinkers (like Isaiah or Buddha) oriented us toward a “new, transcendent principle (God, Logos, Nirvana) that was the telos of human…

Source:  Habermas has totally misunderstood the Axial Age…??? Importance of studying the ‘eonic model’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History