Archive for October, 2008

Sex: How evolution struggles to explain it.

Friday, October 17th, 2008

A challenge to Darwin’s theory of sexual selection.

Sex: why is it so prevalent in nearly all species of life? Because its fun? Well maybe for some higher forms of life; however, plants and microbes practice sex also—we don’t see any smiles on them. The inefficiencies of sexual compared to asexual reproduction are enormous. Darwin and later Richard Dawkins the Darwinian champion failed to offer an evolutionary explanation. In fact, a recent theory rejects the notion that Darwin’s sexual selection theory offers a rationale for sex.

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Were viruses first life?

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Challenging Scientific Dogma

When death triggered my 25 year quest to understand our world, I examined both the scientific and spiritual realms. I found that for the big questions science did not have answers but only suppositions. I also found much scientific dogma. I have written how scientists’ worshiping the false gospel of materialism contributes to the rift between science and spirituality. Dogma on the creation of life and first life permeates not only spiritual teachings but also scientific thought. Just what was first life on Earth?

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Our Life Expectancy

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

When will we die?

My mother died of a stroke in her sixties but my father whose health was near perfect died at 83 in a car accident. I inherited my mother’s genes but I managed (so far) to reverse heart disease twice. Will science and medicine endow added years for us?

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