Transplanting the Human Head

chilaxe

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The brain is the single part of a person's body that can't be disabled or replaced without changing a person's consciousness. Organ transplant patients aren't less than human, even if the organs they receive are artifical or from animals.

The critic in this video, Steven Rose, has been around a long time and he's consistently been on the wrong side of history. His efforts to shut down genetics and evolutionary psychology since the 80s have failed, and both the fields increasingly make valuable contributions to our world.

Dawkins and Edward O. Wilson (see the Ant Whisperer video) promoted an unsentimental view of biology and humankind and became some of the leading scientific figures of their generation, but Rose did he what could to stop that from happening. Science advances funeral by funeral.

How to Ruin a Trip to the Museum

HistNerd

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I am from Denver and I absolutely love this museum. When I was growing up it was one of my favorite places to go, and now whenever I'm back in town I make it a point to visit and stroll through "Prehistoric Journey" (what's featured with the dinosaurs) and the wildlife halls. Anyway, I thought this quote from Consilience written by Edward O. Wilson is appropriate:

"Perhaps God did create all organisms, including human beings, in finished form, in one stroke, and maybe it all happened several thousand years ago. But if that is true, He also salted the earth with false evidence in such endless and exquisite detail, and so thoroughly from pole to pole, as to make us conclude first that life evolved, and second that the process took billions of years. Surely Scripture tells us He would not do that. The Prime Mover of the Old and New Testaments is variously loving, magisterial, denying, thunderously angry, and mysterious, but never tricky."