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A Merry Newtonmas to everyone.
Yes, Isaac Newton was born on 25 December, but there is only a 1 in 365 chance that Christ was.
As you can see Patricia, I put it on to the ORIGINS group for you.
Same for me Patricia - thanks for sharing!
Yes Patricia. Indeed I urge you to go on and put on to the group site ORIGINS the sentences that you put here about the additional knowledge and the URL about the dexterity of the human hand.
Thank you Patricia for finding this useful article for me--about the antiquity of human-hand dexterity. Terry
Jeffrey, I'd suggest starting a discussion, in the section above this one. A conversation like that would be a little difficult to hold in a linear format like this. The nesting format of a discussion is much better for keeping things sorted and coherent.
I read Het Morele Instinct by Jan Verplaetse, a Flemish teacher of moral philosophy - I can't find if it has been translated into English. Anyway, he describes in detail the evolution of different moral attitudes and it shows clearly how the different strategies have had their uses. The book gave me lots to think about and made me understand much more about groups of people and other animals and their behaviour. Also good ammunition to use with people who believe that morality came with xtianity.
http://www.themoralbrain.be/node/7
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