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Tree of Æons

Moody — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:53:54 +0000

From so humble a beginning as the blind dance of chemicals may represent, from out of the depths of unconscious ages in life’s Ultima Thule, the Tree of Life arose from the primordial chaos, sui generis, to grow through countless ages, to diversify its fruits, to send tendrils of spiral DNA, winding and raveling, into [...]

Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin!

Moody — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:46 +0000

In 1868, on the Isle of Wight (renowned for its dinosaur fossils), the talented photographer Julia Margaret Cameron took the picture of Charles Darwin you see here. Today is his birthday. Were he alive today, he’d be 200 years old. One can imagine that his beard would be all the longer and whiter and his [...]

Apx. 99.9% sure I’m right about this…

Moody — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:55:10 +0000

Let’s try to put it as simply as possible and see if everyone can understand it, shall we?

Science has nothing to do with “God”. Science deals solely with the empirical universe as it may be observed, recorded, studied, tested, etc., utilizing whatever tools may be created to do so, as well as our innate human [...]

Evolving, A Mind

Moody — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:34:33 +0000

“You can’t be a rational person six days a week … and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you’re drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god.”—Bill Maher

Let’s make one thing clear from the outset: Whatever I might prefer, I shall have no say in whether [...]

With time on my hands, I read. (Pt. 2)

Moody — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:27:56 +0000

Current and imminent reading:

The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins

Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily for pointing me in the direction of this work. I sincerely hope you’ll take a look at Dawkins’s 2004 “Notable Book of the Year” (and, yes, I know it’s 2006, now, thank you – but [...]