1. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

... that same gene in many different species. Look closely at the genes and you see just what Darwin would have predicted: our version of the gene is much more similar to the chimp version than, say, to ...

2. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...cause of what it brings them but because that’s the kind of people they are. Of course, a theory that predicted that everyone always sacrificed themselves for another’s good would be as p...

3. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?
(Religion/Atheism)

...s proposition is factually accurate, or may simply lead to the discovery of data which no-one had previously predicted, theology starts with the acceptance of ideas that have no factual basis or for w...

4. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...#39;t really understand even with considerable observational input. Most embarrassingly, we would never have predicted that there was a significant excess of matter over antimatter, since the process ...

5. God spoke to me
(Religion/General)

...r President Bush. Bush, however, received just 51 percent of the vote that November. In 2006, he incorrectly predicted that “the outcome of the war and the success of the economy will leave the ...