So, here I am in Arizona, still 9 Mar 2008 Yeah, yeah, OK, I know I’ve been absent except on the comments, but I’m traveling, all right? Everything I have worth saying gets said over beer or whiskey, tonight to Jim Lippard and John Lynch, the latter of whom is my present host. I must thank Malte Ebach for his hospitality over the past week too. On to Utah on Wednesday. Lynch tells me I’m off to see fossils and stuff in Tucson tomorrow. I hope he means geological fossils, and not my contemporaries. Even I think I’m an old fogey. Speaking of fogeys, it’s PZ Mashgvsihem’s birthday. He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. Despite his complete lack of appreciation of subtle philosophy, he’s really not so bad for a cephalopod loving Satanic destroyer of all that is decent. Go wish him a happy birthday, or say a prayer in the comments. He loves that, you know… Administrative History
Evolution Is religious cognition adaptive? 8 May 2009 There was a paper recently in PNAS on “The cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief“. A couple of bloggers, Epiphenom and I Am David, come to opposite conclusions. Epiphenom says that the study shows that religion is not a side-effect of the evolution of cognitive processes, while IAD says… Read More
Administrative Wilkins hides in fear 1 Dec 20111 Dec 2011 I haven’t been engaging much recently. There is an Official Story and a Privileged Narrative. The Official Story is that I have submitted, revised or refined several recent papers for publication, met with a coauthor in Canberra (eight hours due north) for a paper, a talk of which I am… Read More
Biology Johnson on instinct 16 Nov 2009 “We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists, and therefore cannot tell with exactness how they differ; but surely he that contemplates a ship and a bird’s nest will not be long without finding out that the idea of the one was impressed at once, and continued… Read More
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.