Itoero

This is very disturbing. How do you think the other penguins will react when it's over? Will the victim be accepted back in the group?

a fly

You're proof that evolution can go in reverse

I think Einstein meant something like 'imagination'. -Science without imagination is lame, imagination without science is blind.- Some of the things he said/wrote, explain this. *I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world* *Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.* http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/

I might have missed that one.

Which lesson?

Don't assume that your interpretation has any scientific meaning because it helped you. Shouldn't your parents teach you to be a decent person?

How do you know this?

Do people make such a (rather silly) generalization?

I know, I know!

Today I learned that the avocado, with its mildly toxic pit, may have coevolved with Pleistocene megafauna to be swallowed whole and excreted in their dung, ready to sprout. No extant native animal is large enough to effectively disperse avocado seeds in this fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Coevolution http://io9.gizmodo.com/this-ancient-giant-armadillo-is-responsible-for-giving-1677550637 Today I also learned that one of the animals that ate the avocado were the four-tusked elephants. Those were elephant-like animals with four tusks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomphothere#Description

Religion does not have a purpose. Defining the purpose of religion is like defining the purpose of the universe. It does not make much sense... Religion does have a reason (concerning evolution) to be here.

Ok but insights are caused by imagination or logic. The use of imagination is what we call creativity. Creativity is very important in science.(including math)It's basically about pattern recognition (imo this is the same as finding logical relationships between data) and finding new solutions to old problems. Pattern recognition can indirect give a solution to an old problem. Many important breakthroughs leaned on creativity(finding new solutions to old problems). Like the evolutionary process that lead to the invention of the wheel, language, writing,... Researchers believe mathematical creativity is associated with problem solving. Mathematical creativity is then the same as creativity in other sciences, which is very logic. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257715118_Mathematical_creativity_Some_definitions_and_characteristics

It can maintain a privileged group in a position of power. But that's just one aspect.

I suppose it depends how you define religion. In Hinduism and Buddhism many people don't believe in supernatural stuff. When religion only teaches a form of karma...is it a real religion? Scientists do use their logic or imagination to invent or create new things. Like the things Einstein came up with...those were made with logic/imagination. Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment. You can use such judgements to create a new model. If you create a new model then you use your logic to do that. The subject of a thesis often concerns a new model made by logic and imagination. A friend of mine is making a thesis about how information can be transmitted faster via satellites. This model was first a logical idea in his head.

Many interpretations concerning science are based on evidence but are made with logic. Is that science or is it 'philosophical science'?

Today I learned there once lived cave lions. the cave lion ranged from Europe to Alaska over the Bering land bridge until the late Pleistocene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_lion

Einstein supposedly said this. What do you think about this statement? I don't think it makes much sense. 'religion' should be replaced with 'philosophy'.

Humanity will end because we are no longer the fittest, we will not be able to adapt to whatever the future brings.

"scientifically established facts" are very relative. There is no evidence for the absence of supernaturally.

Faith does not require evidence but many faith-ers think there is evidence...that can cause religious beliefs and can hinder science-evolution. It's my opinion that the beliefs of a scientist should be subject to the scientific method. People are of course free to believe what they want and we are free to condemn it.

" The study of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/philosophy Which boundaries do you see in that definition?

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Mathematics concerns artificial truth...2+2 equals 4 because we say it equals 4. We create the truth. Every science is in a sense 100% artificial