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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ford Prefect on February 22, 2006, 05:44:24 pm

Title: Religion and behavioral science
Post by: Ford Prefect on February 22, 2006, 05:44:24 pm

I read a great article in the Boston Globe that addresses exactly what I've always argued in this debate:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/29/supernatural_selection/

Title: Re: Religion and behavioral science
Post by: Ace on February 23, 2006, 01:51:16 am

The funny thing is how costly signalling, intended to improve the reproductive success of the individual, has turned me so off to so many otherwise attractive and accessible women.

Translation: All of the single women Ace has met have been battier than Six.

Title: Re: Religion and behavioral science
Post by: Bobboau on February 23, 2006, 10:27:14 am

I concure with the conjecture presented within this article.

Title: Re: Religion and behavioral science
Post by: Nuke on February 23, 2006, 02:38:26 pm

it does make some very intresting points. consider it science's revenge for intelegent design :D

Title: Re: Religion and behavioral science
Post by: Ford Prefect on February 23, 2006, 03:12:49 pm

That's one of the things I was chuckling about as I read this; the irony of science and religion be united under a single context, but for once, on scientific terms and not spiritual ones.