Religion Is A Completely Different Thing From

Evolution Is The Fundamental Idea In All Of Life Science, In All Of Biology. The Key To Our Being Here Now Is Time, 4.54 Billion (earth) Years Of Time. Nuclear Fission Wasn't Discovered Until Long After Charles Darwin And Alfred Russell Wallace Published Their Original Books And Papers, For Example. Our Ability To Measure Atomic Masses Wasn't Developed Until Long After Their Deaths. These Features Of Nature Enabled Us To Reckon The Age Of The Earth And Compare It With Speciation Rates Here.

The World's Going To Change Climatically. We Just Want To Control The Change. We Want To Have A High Quality Of Life For Billions Of People As We Pass Through This Era.

The Meaning Of Life Is Pretty Clear: Living Things Strive To Pass Their Genes Into The Future. The Claim That We Would Not Have Morals Or Ethics Without Religion Is Extraordinary. Animals In Nature Seem To Behave In Moral Ways Without Organized Religion.

I Tell Personal Stories Associated With Aspects Of The Theory, And I Hope They Are Interesting And Compelling. I Don't Feel You're Going To Change A Grownup's Mind In One Reading. People Have To Be Exposed To Scientific Ideas Over And Over Again For Years. It's Also Not A Textbook.

You Start Doing The Addictive Behavior To Feel Good And Then Your Receptors Get Overloaded With Dopamine, Then You Stop Doing The Addictive Thing And Some Of The Receptors Have Shut Down And You Don't Have Enough Dopamine To Feel Good. So Then You Feel Bad And Go Back To The Addictive Behavior To Get More Dopamine. The Strange Thing Is That It Works With What We Think Of As Uppers And Downers And Whatever You Call Gambling - Sidewaysers.