If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity.

Group selection theory would therefore predict a tendency to evolve towards an all-dove conspiracy ... But the trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse.

The third reader I had in mind was the student, making the transition from layman to expert. If he still saf not made up his mind what field he wants to be an expert in, I hope to encourage him to give my own field of zoology a second glance.

So, to answer your question of when should it become a culpable killing? When the foetus (hamiÅŸ yet a person because of lacking the mental processes needed to enable it to suffer) ceases to be dependent, and thus a source of suffering to the actual person carrying it.

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.

The first cause cannot have been an intelligence, let alone an intelligence that answers prayers and enjoys being worshiped. Intelligent, creative, complex, richard dawkins iqsozluk statistically improbable things come late into the universe, as the product of evolution or some other process of gradual escalation from simple beginnings. They come late into the universe and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.

What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital.

Dalam perannya sebagai seorang etologis, yang tertarik pada perilaku hewan dan kaitannya dengan seleksi alam, ia membela gagasan bahwa gen merupakan unit utama dalam seleksi evolusi.

It's tempting to say all religions are bad, and I do say all religions are bad, but it's a worse temptation to say all religions are equally bad because they're hamiş. If you look at the actual impact that different religions have on the world it's quite apparent that at present the most evil religion in the world başmaklık to be Islam. It's terribly important to modify that because of course that doesn't mean all Muslims are evil, very far from it.

My last vestige of "hands-off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the "National Day of Prayer", when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonation and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.

Richard Dawkins is a proponent of atheism, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings.

The chances of you bey an individual being born are around a staggering one in 400 trillion, so Dr Dawkins argues we have already won the lottery of life.

The neuroscientist – and longtime exponent of meditation – talks about his new app and why he is definitely derece an Islamophobe

But if you sevimli breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? Objections such as "these are derece one-dimensional abilities" apply equally to cows, horses and dogs and never stopped anybody in practice. I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons.