Act One: Philosophical Misadventures Man is not a Rational Animal What Happens When We Reason The Fallibility of Human Logic The Sherlock Holmes Fallacy The
Preface
Preface There are 147 essays contained in this book. The five-part structure, whose parts I have chosen to call “acts,” is meant to suggest a
The Randomness Principle
At the heart of the theory of evolution is the untested assumption that random changes, called mutations, can beget beneficial modifications or improvements in an
The Great Fecundity of Human Barrenness: From Human Barrenness Arises Bounty and Fertility
In olden times, the general belief among human beings was that having as many children as possible was virtuous, while having few or no children
God is not a Quantum-Uncertainty Hoarder
There is a growing number of physicists, astrophysicists, and others, both scientists and laypersons, who believe in the existence of multiverses – the view that,
How God Designs Things
There are mistaken beliefs held by both religious and scientific people about God and Its vast creation, the Universe. Even today, many religious people dogmatically
Homo Stupidus 