Imporant note (which is why it's at the top not the bottom) May 2019 Since writing I have discovered the “born alive” bill was about non-viable infants. The “infanticide” hysteria on the right was manufactured which is very disappointing. We are all disenfranchised by such ideological gerrymandering. The pendulum swings wildly between radical extremes in … Continue reading Jelly Babies: On Morals, Ethics and Abortion.
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In Defence of Reformed ‘Patriarchy’.
To begin I am setting out the fundamental reasons why I, as an evolutionary scholar, critique orthodox feminism as briefly as possible in the hope everyone reading will immediately grasp the thesis. It's all about patriarchy - what it is and what it is not. As I have written elsewhere feminism is not the battle … Continue reading In Defence of Reformed ‘Patriarchy’.
A Short Review of Wonder Woman with an Evolutionary Slant.
Despite all the feminist/SJW chatter around Wonder Woman, a marketing strategy which is far more likely to turn me off any product attached to it, I enjoyed the film. The character embodies femininity unhitched from biology and evolution. In the real world, we know women are just as competitive as men, but employ more covert, less aggressive … Continue reading A Short Review of Wonder Woman with an Evolutionary Slant.
Religion, Atheism and The Evolution of Symbolic Thought.
Stone tools provide the first evidence of the evolution of symbolic thought and began to emerge in our hominid ancestors around 2.5 million years ago. The cognitive architecture in the brain had to be in place before the first spark of creativity occurred, before the hominid looked at the crude lump of rock and saw the refined … Continue reading Religion, Atheism and The Evolution of Symbolic Thought.
