WHICH CAME FIRST – THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?

The so-called causality dilemma – which came first, the chicken or the egg – is based on the fact that we cannot be certain what the cause is and what the effect is. A chicken is required to lay the egg, which also means that the egg which hatched the chicken had already existed. Logically, …

THE ORIGIN OF EVOLUTION

(The anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin) ’For anyone studying the symbols of our time,’ writes English biologist and thinker Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), ’the emergence of the philosophy of evolution, regarding its position at the throne of human thought, whereupon it came from the limbo of the despised, and as many hoped forgotten things, …