Category: Evolutionary psychology
Best Schools blog: If moral relativism is a disease, Darwinism isn’t the cure
| January 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, Evolutionary psychology, News |
“There is a great danger that the Darwinian-reductionist cure may turn out to be worse than the relativist disease.” more
Roger Scruton: Missing the main problem with evolutionary psychology
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
If evidence showed that theorists were wrong about Neanderthal man, why believe evolutionary psychologists, who have no evidence for attitudes and behaviour 70 thousand years ago? more
Urgently needed: A random Darwin generator
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, Evolutionary psychology, News |
The fraudulent evolutionary psychologists’ problem was that the whole system was not yet 100% nonsense all the time. But the updated Random Darwin Generator system would be free of that defect. more
Evolutionary psychologists discover that it paid for an early human to get it wrong about whether a girl was interested
| January 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
By contrast, the Biblical story of Dinah gives a millennial-old picture of what was likely to happen if the guy got it wrong – and those people lived much closer to dawn of humanity conditions than we do. more
When evolutionary ethics reigned unchallenged: Don’t gab a lot about cute guys in North Carolina ….
| January 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
“The middlemen volunteering these girls and women for sterilization were typically social workers, making North Carolina stand out in the history of eugenics laws.” more
Darwinism, Nazism, and ethics: The last of Third Reich historian’s three posts
| January 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Ethics, Evolutionary psychology, News |
Actually, the Nazi trappings are just frills. The legal right to administer the killing dose is what matters. more
Predictions and Resolutions
| January 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
“The real reason that New Year’s resolutions have fallen out of favor and been replaced by predictions goes beyond mere cynicism.” more
Human Nature Watch 2: Nature, Nurture, and Gender
| January 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
“Human nature is what it is, regardless of how it came to be that way, and irrespective of what our cousins do or do not do. ” more
All three of history prof Richard Weikart’s Credo posts on evolutionary ethics vs. traditional ethics
| January 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
“While researching this theme, I noticed that many Darwinists, both scientists and other scholars, wanted to replace Christian ethics with some kind of evolutionary ethics.” more
New Statesman columnist blasts scientism, skewering “shabby book”
| January 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News, Philosophy |
“The man’s peace of mind is indecent.” more
“The evidence that runs contrary to the view that certain emotions are biologically basic …”
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
One can just smell the lawsuits arising from security interventions based on crackpot evolution theory. more
Yes, Catholics DO have this “conscience” thing. Get used to it.
| December 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Evolutionary psychology, News |
The government can’t get its grubby hands on conscience because that is part of being human. And not a part that the evolutionary psychologist, the current source of alleged wisdom, would even understand. more
An evolutionary psychologist actually manages to come up with something so stupid that …
| December 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
… his article got pulled. more
Evolutionary psychology: Have the refs finally begun to arrive?
| December 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
“What they are really doing is rationalizing cultural positions and hoping to map that to a biological topology.” Yep. more
Sound bite science: “Primate societies expanded in a burst”
| December 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
This event is prophesied to have happened fifty-two million years ago. more
Kissing helps assess mates’ immunity – evolutionary psychologist. Oh, wait ….
| December 3, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
And just think: This evolved in societies that do not kiss before marriage. more
Evolutionary psychologist D. S. Wilson tackles at-risk students
| December 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
Long term, these programs seldom make much difference because they have the problem by the wrong end. more
“By eight months, babies have developed nuanced views of reciprocity and can conduct these complex social evaluations” – evolutionary psychologist
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
What clearly happened here was that the previous evo psych research claims weren’t all hanging together, and this new fix supposedly rescues them. more
Steve Pinker – actually – thinks that most people believe evolutionary psychology but don’t see it as a force for good
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
Nonsense. The common stereotype of evolutionary psychology is that it promotes rubbish. And guess what? more
Evolutionary psychologists: Might a taller opponent defeat Obama?
| November 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
Of course, in ancient times, a man often had to shout above a crowd to even get heard. It’s probably not useful to take the thesis much further. more