To “believe in determinism” entails a fundamental contradiction. By “determinism” is meant a hypothesis that all of the actions, perceptions and – most importantly – thoughts of any living being are caused by physical processes. This is a generalization of the proper notion of causality
In my continuing review of Constitutional law, I have been reading through an assortment of documents and Supreme Court decisions dealing with slavery, and leading to the secession of the South. The most startling of these has been the Confederate Constitution, as adopted by the
There is a rather popular conception that modern technology will result in the end or drastic curtailment of human evolution. With the advent of various medical improvements, those with conditions that would otherwise result in high morbidity prior to adolescence are now much more likely