Yeah I'm not saying that everyone should know every single detail of every known field. But if they have a certain question in mind, they should learn enough to where they know the answer themselves without blind trust.
I wouldn't call myself an expert in Evolutionary Biology, but I know enough...
I don't think that's necessary, to be honest. There's scientists who are very well rounded and have a lot of knowledge about a lot of different things.
Scientists shouldn't have blind trust in fields different from their own. They should acknowledge the limits of their own understanding. And...
To be fair, a lot of athiests or non-religious people do blindly believe certain things about science without understanding it well enough, whether the science is true or not.
Like, my sister for example "believes" evolution, even though I know she really doesn't understand it. One time we...
God: "Because **** you, that's why."
On a serious note...
As do many other insects who manage to do so without spreading deadly diseases.
If mosquitoes were to vanish, there may be a minor upset in the eco system, but there are plenty of other insect clades that would love to fill the...
"Wrong" lacks technical meaning. You can't get to any objectivity with technically meaningless terms.
Instead of getting so caught up in the concept of 'right' and 'wrong', just try to track the technical/objective consequences of certain actions.
Humans think about morals because we've...
Sorry. I should say our equations involving time break down.
Yeah, and in General Relativity, gravity is the result of mass and energy, or any other component of the Stress-Energy Tensor.
Gravitational field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"These equations are dependent on the...
The Big Bang doesn't REALLY even have to mean a beginning if you look at it for what it actually is. The Big Bang simply states that all the mass-energy of the observable universe was in an infinitesimally small point. That's really it.
Yes, our equations for time break down at this point...
I would say that viruses are definitely not alive. They have no activity apart from what goes on at the atomic level.
I do like the perspective of looking at everything being at least a little bit alive and treating 'non-living' and 'living' as a spectrum with two ends rather than two sides to...
Yeah, I have no problem admitting things look designed.
I also have no problem admitting the Earth looks flat from the surface. However, judging things just by how they look would never get us very far.
My personal favorite is the...
I think that would be like your 2nd grand nephew or something. Then again, a 2nd grand nephew could also mean your 2nd cousin's grandson. Or would that be the same person? :confused:
Edit: Or, it could just be your grandson, but I'm assuming it's not?
Edit 2: I think I got it down. Either it's...
There's also no reason to assume that Natural Selection still isn't at work towards our taste buds.
Someone dying from a heart attack from binging on sweets would be Natural Selection.