Gregg R Thomas

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Cooperation and shared thinking helped shape human intelligence.

This author, Cody Cottier, does a good and competent job of summarising Michael Tomasello’s work on the evolution of human cognition.  He also misses out some important stuff like cooperative breeding, which allowed a greater brain size (increased help…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this…[Read more]

Lovely, Robert!  I’m having such a pleasant learning day.

Reg, I had the same joyful reaction – terrific word, adding it to my top drawer of delightful thoughts – Jake – thanks for the gift 🙂

@jakelafort – absquatulate, a great word to have in the vocab.

In future, in a debate with a theist, should I fail to expostulate, I will just absquatulate rather than remonstrate and I won’t care who’s looking, especially when the theist is more intransitive than the verb 🙂

At least whatever Clouseau did was carefully planned.

I once spent about 20 minutes explaining that Intelligent Design was not a valid ‘science’ to a Muslim apologist who was arguing the opposite. Someone asked me if he could expound upon the points I had made and I was happy to allow him to take over.

I have never tried to teach a theist any science since then and I insist on only debating or…[Read more]

This article will give a good insight into secularism in Islamic schooling.  It is dated April 1, 2018, in the Gregorian calendar.

@ Jake

It may be about attention span. I’ve been watching videos of reactions to the classic 1979 sci fi/horror classic Alien and the younger the viewer the more likely they are to complain that “nothing happens until a half hour into the movie.” Yeah, nothing but scene setting and character development. They want the horror scares to start right…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Happy Birthday President Jimmy Carter. You are a great example of what a good Christian should be. I know you look forward each week to Sunday School too.

That class act, Donald Trump, honors Jimmy Carter on his 100th birthday:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Atlantic unfairly disses Dawkins.

This article disses the author of the Atlantic piece, Ross Andersen, thus:

It appears that Mr. Andersen is not just journalistically ham-handed, but also incurious.

Ouch!  Is that true?  Maybe Mr Andersen believes that indigenous creation myths are as valid as science.

I think i…[Read more]