Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#78 Origin and evolution of … religion-making software in hominid brains
Hypersensitive agency detection and promiscuous teleology in human brains make a powerful religion-making machine
Millions of years of evolution…
4 years ago
#77 – Origin and evolution of … a religious streak and symbolism
Signs of symbolism, abstract thinking, compassion, and even a religious streak becoming visible in hominids hundreds of thousands of years ago.
W…
4 years ago
#76 – Origin and Evolution of … morality and religion
Evolution produces organisms who find more and more ways to work with each other to survive: the origin of the agape love we’ve been talking about?
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#75 – Origin and evolution of … the human mind and soul
A discussion about that point in our evolutionary journey when humans acquired the abilities to experience … “a soul”?
At this point in our unfo…
4 years ago
#74 – Putting together a new Christian worldview
A look back at the last ten episodes and how they unpack a provocative new Christian understanding of how and why we got here.
Over the past two …
4 years, 1 month ago
#73 – Origin and evolution of … humans (part II)
A geneticist explains to us how we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees, and a more recent one with Neanderthals. As he put it: “Neanderthals we…
4 years, 1 month ago
#72 – Origin and evolution of … humans (part I)
The anthropologist who discovered “Lucy” answers many of our questions on human evolution.
The cosmic egg has exploded and produced a universe fu…
4 years, 1 month ago
#71 – Origin and evolution of … species (part 2)
An update on Darwinism and the origin of species.
Last week we heard about the mechanisms going on inside the cells … at the molecular level … to…
4 years, 1 month ago
#70 – Origin and evolution of … species (part 1)
Most people don’t know: the genome is a formatted database with read/write memory systems which can reorganize itself to produce new species.
Las…
4 years, 2 months ago
#69 – Genetics 101, and Evolution denial
A brief overview of genetics as most know it, and why many don’t buy the Theory of Evolution.
Next week, we plan to wade into the deep water of …
4 years, 2 months ago