Recent content by Tonalia

“Why'd it bleep out *** it at the bud? Is it offensive? Its about damn flowers!” I have no idea what you are talking about here. “The first article is very wrong, “When the public thinks about evolution, they think about [things like] the origin of wings … . But these are things that...

“I think you have captured the essence of the article. It is much easier to keep the worldview you want and dismiss everything else instead of considering it.” But it’s more than that. We are slaves to whatever our brain makes us think. Spin it as you will, but there is simply no way around...

"Ok, you need to relax. It's possible to change your viewpoint. But it's hard to be convinced to change, because of our little bubble of mental safety, if that makes sense to your wrinkly ape cranium :) ." But, if our brains are hardwired for anything, then even the changing of our minds...

And why do you believe this? Because you are hard-wired to believe it? If we are hard wired to believe what we believe, then we will never really be able to know what is true and false, right and wrong, good or evil, etc. in live. Because we believe what we do simply because we are hard-wired...

You don't get it do you? You think the way you do because of the brain that evolution gave you. You are a slave to the thoughts that the chemical processes in your brain spit out. It makes you think that you actually thought those thoughts, but in science, there is no "you". You are just a...

Sir, you are missing the point. If they believe what they do because their brains are hardwired to do it as a result of the worldview their brains evolved to embrace, well, then so did your brain evolve to do the same! LOL! So whose evolved monkey brain is right? Can any of us really chose...

Then I guess that goes for both Conservatives AND Liberals as well. Hmmm. How are conservatives to trust the interpretations of scientific data by liberal scientists who are hardwired to interpret the data like they do - according to their chosen worldview. Or perhaps we should say -...