logos redux

“Doom and gloom types always want to lament that the presence of people is killing the Earth. Not so, say California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists. At least on a cosmic scale, the presence of life may increase longevity for planets…(Despite current concerns about rising carbon dioxide levels triggering detrimental climate change, the pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has dropped some 2,000-fold over the past 3.5 billion years; modern, man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide offset a fraction of this overall decrease.)”

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David Berlinski makes Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins look like 90-lb intellectual weaklings. Here is Berlinski comparing Darwinian evolution to the prospect of transforming, randomly, Don Quixote into War and Peace.

Be sure to watch the entire series by Coldwater Media on Youtube here. Seriously. Watch the whole thing.