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7-3-2008 1:14 PM
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Mohir says:
At this point, 30 years after the Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and his late collaborator Amos Tversky started documenting a rash of fallacies in human reasoning, the idea that the human mind would be "perfect in His image" is as outdated (and narcissistic) as the idea that the solar system would revolve around the planet earth.
The only theory that can really make sense of these needless imperfections is Darwin's theory of natural selection, which holds that humans (and all other life forms) evolve through a blind process known as descent-with-modification, in which new life forms represent random modifications of earlier life forms -- with no central overseer to guide the process. Such a random process can, over time, lead populations of creatures to become more adapted to their environment, but it is also vulnerable to getting stuck, in the sort of good-enough-but-not-perfect solutions that mathematicians call local maxima.
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7-4-2008 7:45 AM
skwirlinator
Where is our tail?
Why don't we walk on our toes?
Why do we have dull, small teeth?
Why don't our ears swivel around and move independantly?
Why do our claws curl under and grow dull?
Why are our nasal cavities so small?
Why are our bodies bald?
Why is birthing so painful?
Why are our pheremones so weak?
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