Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The body will heal itself

That sounds like your own personal higher power, that you have a relationship with.

Can people believe a broken bone is fixed with faith or by prayer.?Yes, when they are delusional. The body will heal itself and medical assistance will help the process. But reasoning only happens in the mind. It is a skill that needs to be developed. As Dan Dennett once  said;” Yes, I do believe in a power greater than myself. I call it gravity”.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

Yes, but can you reason your way out of a broken leg?  Who or what does the work, in the end, of healing a broken bone?  The doctors, nurses, hospital, etc. only help it along.

Have a great week everybody!

“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

That’s super-interesting, Enco.  That’s why I love the history of languages, they’re a way into the ancient past movements of people.

According to the internet, Aquatinian was the tribal language of the Aquatini tribe or clan or whatever, in the Pyrenees.  It’s a Paleohispanic and Vasconic language.  Around where I live, we had the Iceni tr…[Read more]

Jake and Simon,

It turns out that although Basque language is unique, it may not be as totally mysterious as I had previously supposed. It is actually a genetic isolate language that has been spoken in the same region for longer than surrounding Indo-European languages. It’s ancestor is thought to be Aquatinian. Some linguists think it is…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

Yes, absolutely. Just a side-note, elsewhere in that video they were also discussing how to terminate pathogens with a “cocktail” approach, which is applying more than one treatment at once in order to kill faster, lea…[Read more]

That Basque region in Spain is also the one area that resisted the onslaught of the Muslims in the 8th century. I believe Basques are also the people who bring us jai alia. If ya ain’t seen it an entertaining gambling sport that requires great reflexes and hand/eye coordination. Chula.

Imagine the Almohades and Almoravides slaughtering, raping…[Read more]

Simon,

Genetics would certainly explain the capacity for language. Whether there are innate structures in the brain for how a language forms is something different.

Another great mystery is the Basque language. It’s still a guess where it came from because it bears no resemblance to Spanish or French, yet Basque country is in between Spain and France.