The Science Book club sent Kauffman, The Origin of Order, to me by mistake. They said "just keep it", and it lay unopened on my shelf for the best part of a year. I ran out of reading material and decided to give it a shot. The Origin of Order is a deeply technical book, written for mathem...

The Feeling of what Happens is a wonderful book, that I heartily recommend. I found Damasio's first book, Descartes' Error, more comprehensive and a good backdrop to Feeling. My recommendation is that if most of the group has not read Descartes' Error, we read that one before The Feeling of what Hap...

Pinker, the blank slate

Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype or Unweaving the Rainbow

Kaufmann, At Home in the Universe

Quote:the theory of evolution is a "theory" for one reasonflat wrong. Building theories is what science does. We especially like the true onesQuote:it has never been proven experimentallyflat wrong. Reference: Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our TimeQuote:T...

Quote:The growth of complexity in a closed system, such as we suspect the universe to be, does not contradict the laws of thermodynamics so long as increased complexity corresponds to increased entropy. Of course it doesn't. Bloom is the one asserting that the laws of thermodynamics are wrong.Under ...

In General: Evolution is a fact. Not every detail has been worked out. The fact that every detail has not been worked out says nothing about one of the most thoroughly tested and examined theories in all of science.In Specific: There is new evidence that legs evolved long before the move to land. An...

My parents wanted me to watch Smurfs, but we ran into the problem that they hadn't been invented yet. Edited by: Jeremy1952 at: 12/7/02 12:07:59 pm

My copy arrived today, and so far I'm loving it. I suppose we could just start a "Book Talk" level thread with "At Home" as the topic, and anyone else interested could pop on in. Thanks for the thought. Deep books are so much more fun with company!