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Hey, I really need help here! I'm stuck with the statue puzzle.. At this point my chief won't direct work.. I tried to drop him to every place I could around the statue and he just wants to inspect food, contemplate tribe... The statue is now at the very top of the path but it looks like the villagers don't see it anymore.. What should I do ? Thanks a lot for your help!
I have completed all 16 puzzles. I have purchased Level 3 in everything, except Science, Alchemy and Nature. I am missing 3 special items. My question is there an actual end to the game? If so, do I have to get Level 3 in everything, plus locate the special items to complete it?
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.
To Thaddeus:
Sorry, I don't mean to ignore your question. I don't have an exact answer for you, but I remember seeing something earlier in this thread about statues getting stuck. The makers of the game released an updated version that fixed it. If you'll scroll up this thread, you should be able to find it and check to see if you have the most recent version.
I really don't think there's anything wrong with the statue.
I had a chief that died during the repair of the statue and it took a little bit of effort to get things going again once I found my new chief. He didn't at first want to direct work, so I had to keep dropping him on the 'hotspot' for the statue renovation. Same for the villagers. Once the chief begins to direct work there, then the other trained builders will work on it, too.
I hope that helps.
For anyone still having trouble finding the Lotus, I posted a screenshot on my VV blog.
Did anyone ever find out how to get the bath plans cleared from the chalkboard in order to begin the plans for the statue? I have completed all my tech requirements as well as the requirements for master builders and a chief. I know a couple of people were having trouble with this as well. This is a GREAT site and it has really helped me! Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.
Hi! Here are a few things I have tried that have worked:
-I used 3, not 2 builders for the lift. It should takes only a few seconds, not long at all.
-I pause my game before I quit, so I can play it all the way through. If you are not expecting it, it is really lame to come back to a village you just started and have people dying and all your food gone.
I hope this helps someone. :)
I have completed all the puzzles except the gem in the fire.... I have been waiting a long time..... I don't lke the fact that nothing triggers that puzzle....errr
If you think this game is fun there is a game you also would like to play called Black and White
It is just like this, only the graphic are way better.
Hi, I have done the puzzles, got full tech, built the sewing hut etc, I have 75 villagers but cannot make one of them be chief, any suggestions? Also I am missing a rare feather, lol.The teenagers are very work shy and refuse to do anything but lay down by the fire.
Great site by the way.
To Tracy:
One of your villagers will always be the chief. Having 75 makes it a challenge to fine him/her! Maybe go to the details screen and try each one of them in order so that nobody gets missed. Also, if you have nursing mothers, the chief could be the infant or the mom. You'll have to try them when she's done nursing.
Can someone please advise us how you know you are done. Does the game actually say congrats you have completeted the game. I have completed all the puzzles, I have a trillion food and tech points, I have 90 people and have changed everyones clothes and matched them by trait so I know who they are. I still have to get a few collections. Do I have to complete the collections to finish? I also have not had a triplets yet.
regarding the statue getting stuck. The closer you get to the top the less space there is for builders to push. also i noticed that if you don't put them directly on the statue and somewhere closer lower down the path they will push the statue. kinda like a secret spot. sometimes it takes a few tries to find the spot.
I got the clothes hut to work. I don't really know what I did except purchase both the level 3 in magic and the level 3 in restoration. The location of it is kind of at that little opening of the circle where the kids dance in the puddles, above the fire pit. I'm a little disappointed in the whole ghost thing. They appear, but it's very anti-climatic. They just hover there and nothing else happens.
I had an interesting result from a potion when I used rose + tiger lily + lotus. The villagers started speaking another language and under their name it said: Blannesamagawaloomajoobamooga. When I tried to do it again, it said feeling faint/woozy. Anyone get that other language result?
There's another kinda fun potion orchid + tiger lily + cactus.
For those having difficulties with food, I had this too. You have to be very careful about how many villagers you have until you can get rid of the sharks. The 3 trees should be able to feed 12-15 villagers without any problems. I kept my village to 11 people. If you have the chief direct the work when you are farming he's suppose to make the fruit on the trees count for more...you can have him do this by dragging him/her to a tree. If you want you can try choosing the nature faction too, it is suppose to help provide more food than the magic.
To Marla:
I don't think there's a treasure or anything huge to announce the end of the game. Once you've solved the puzzles, gotten the awards, and finished the collections, you can just keep playing for kicks. Like to see how long the tribe will survive, what island events happen, etc. There's not a definite ending. It can go forever.
i have a guy who refuses to take the potion for health, and he is in the weakened stages. how can i get him healthy again. he's only 17
Posted by: grammajoe authentication icon | June 15, 2008 12:38 PM
If he has under dislikes "potions" when you click detail on him, he will never drink a potion.
I've gotten to the section where if you place the chief at the top of the path he or she will point out a rare collectible. I've done this 4 or 5 times now w/ 2 chiefs and I've scanned around the screen each time and still haven't seen the rare collectible! Can anyone tell me where to look, and what i am looking for? Thanks!
The Doctor's Friend
Posted by: Rose Tyler | June 14, 2008 10:45 PM
Wait for him to make the rainbow above his head, then hit the spacebar to pause the game and scroll around to find the item.
Did anyone figure out how to make triplets?
i really need help badly...plz help me!there are a few things i need help with.
1. i have 3 huts built, and i don't know how to make any more.
2. i don't know how to get like 50,000 tech points fast. is there a way and what do i have to do? i have all my people working on it and it goes so slow.
3. anybody know how to get tech points super fast?
thank you for your responces!
it gets kinda boring because the boxes that show random events of the island don't show up as frequently as the prevoiuse games did, and when they do, they are so rare i get excited for nothing
but overall i really like this game.
my cheif died tho D:
and can someone explain about the clothing hut? what does it do? how does it funtion, and who makes the clothes? how much clothes are there?
To Kelsie:
About tech points:
Be sure you game is set to fast speed to get tech points the quickest. Put everyone you can spare on the research table. Put the Chief with the scientists to increase effeciency. That's about all you can do.
About huts:
My most advanced game only has 3 huts and I've solved all puzzles and bought all technology. Not sure if more than 3 huts is possible.
Hi. I don't come here often and don't have an account, but I do have a question. I currently have a population of five, an old woman, and four men. I have tried using a fertility potion on the woman and a young man, but cannot get the woman to have a baby. I have a whole load of tech, an orchard, and can fish. I don't have a chief right now. People have said that if you get enough tech, and food, but can't have babies, you will sometimes get a barrel of babies. How much tech and food do you need. Also, If the person who would be chief dies before the kids come, will one of the kids be chief? What if the kids are already there and the person who would be chief dies? I know this is a lot for me to ask and for you to read, but I want help!!! I love this game, but Always have to cheat to get through just about any game. If you have an answer, please give hints for me and any others who want to know, but don't give it away in one spoiler tag. THANKS!!!
PS I love looking at random forums, if there are any other VV forums you can suggest I would love it.
My villagers have not aged at all. My orginal mother is still carrying her first infant with 67 minutes left. My first two children are 3 and 7. I have level 1 magic, level 3 alchemy, level 2 science. I have finished my first hut, repaired the lift, found all my coral, only need 1 shell, but no one ages. Can't increase my population when no one grows up!
To bla:
About having babies:
The babies arriving in barrels is a random island event. No particular technology will make it happen.
About finding a Chief:
One of your villagers is supposed to be the Chief, regardless. If a Chief dies, you should be able to have everyone in the village try on the robe and one of them will be Chief, unless the Chief is a nursing mother or the infant. In that case, you'd have to wait until the mother is finished nursing. I don't think it matters where a villager comes from. If he/she is part of the village, there will be a Chief among them.
Hey everyone. Just wanted to tell you all something funny that happens with my VVs. (It's also slightly annoying). I have a V named Lolo who I mistakenly made a parent who spends all day running around like a mad man embracing all the other women. He is already responsible for 12 children!! He won't stop! Lol.
I almost had to start over again when I was down to one female but I just kept breeding her over and over and sure everyone in the village had the same mother but its ok, they are all related some how or another. Not like the game keeps track after they turn 18!
Oh and I had triplets just by accident. I wasn't even trying just wanted to make some babys and BOOM 3.
......Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the sound of chimes means time to put the kids on the hunt for treasure? The louder/more distinct the chime the bigger the find............
Posted by: joannad73 | June 13, 2008 10:48 PM
Is there a thing called "Hunt for Treasure???"
Could someone make a list of all of the Puzzles, in order, Please!
Why can't i buy the "Magic Fraction" also?
Why can we only have one?
Which one is the best to have? [I have choosen the Nature.]
I had to restart my fire, now i have to wait 6 hours or so again.
My Fire has burned out and i dont see Diamond nor does anyone get a bowl with water in it.
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Can anyone tell me what those "Symbols are , right above the rose bush? Theres 3 of them.
Can anyone tell me why i cant make any more babies due to housing shortage. I only have 17 people now. Do i have to build the stone huts?
I have played the other 2 games and dont remember it taking so long to build or play. Its kinda getting boring.
Thank you to all in advance,
First of all, please don't change your computer clock to get food or tech points, etc. It's a very BAD IDEA. Not only will it mess up your game, but it will also mess up a lot of computer functions that rely on the computer clock.
To Brandi:
About the lift:
You only need to have 3 adept builders to fix the lift. I don't think you need to buy technology for it. Then put a villager on the lift as soon as it starts raining.
To Natalie:
I don't think there's a treasure in this game. For a list of all the puzzles, look at the beginning of this thread. You can only choose one faction, either Nature or Magic. You'll have to run another game to try the other faction. Neither one is better than the other. They are just different.
About the diamond:
It takes some time for the diamond to show up in the dead fire. You'll see white sparkles in the fire when it's time. Then let it die out and the diamond will be there. Drop villagers at the waterfall and they will put water on the diamond to cool it.
I don't think the symbols above the rose mean anything for the game.
You do have to build the stone huts before you can have more babies when you reach the max for the current housing. The foundations are already in place.
To Sam:
About the Chief:
Maybe you are missing some of the villagers. One of them has to be the new Chief. Try scrolling through the details screen to make sure you get everyone, including kids. Also, if you have nursing mothers, you have to wait until they are finished nursing to try the mom and the kid.
Perhaps someone else already said this, but I couldn't find it. For those of you with a statue stuck at the top of the hill, maybe this will help. My chief was interupted while directing the work and dropping my chief all over every inch of the statue did NOT help. In desperation, I picked up my chief and moved her up and down the hill. At the bottom (where the statue used to be) I noticed her action line said "Directing Work" again. I dropped her there and my builders immediately went back to work. I hope this helps some of you who have been as frustrated as I was.
Kris - I'm having the same problem. I believe I had a builder draw plans after the bath was completed and before I had level 3 Restoration, which brought up the bath plans again. Every time I drag a Master Builder to the board they refuse, saying "this plan needs to be followed first", but the current plan has already been completed! Any advice? Thanks in advance!
Jen (and Kris) - Does it look like there are two sets of plans on the chalkboard? Like those for the bath AND the statue, perhaps?
That is what happened on my game, but I was still able to complete the statue. There is a minor bug in the latest version that sometimes prevents the chalkboard from getting cleared before the plans are drawn for the statue. It should be fixed soon, but it should not prevent you from being able to finish the statue.
Try putting a master builder up on the ramp just near the flat part of the statue's mid-section.
How can I complete puzzle 12 (bath aromatherapy) without a doctor?
My villagers are all healthy. They havent been sick in 3 days.
I have full science and medicine. Is there a potion or something that can make them sick to heal them to create a doctor?
I couldnt find a sickness potion in the big list, but thought I might have overlooked something.
Ok People abit of humor here.lol You know those Brown Welcome mats that are in front of the huts? It gets me everytime i think its a Mushroom, When i'm crusing a kid to a feather or a shell etc. I pause for afew to only be late getting to the collecting and it disappears. lol I mean it gets me everytime. lol lol lol
To Tarsh:
About needing a doctor -
You don't need to cure sick people to get a doctor. After you purchase level 2 in medicine, you can drop a villager onto the hospital area table and it will study medicine. It's much easier than in the earlier games. You can get a Master Doctor as easily as you can get a Master Scientist. Just have them study medicine.
Ok guys I finally broke down and registered...you would think after all the spoilers and comments I've put on here and I would have already done it.
Ok for the people that want to gather tech points faster, this is one way of doing it. I've found this out back On the first VV and never posted anything about it.
Ok Pick your reseacher up and place them at the table. When they stop walking and reseach they will twitch (like if they are going to turn around and never do). YOu will notice that you tech points went higher. At this time you do not have to wait till they stop and research again. You can simply pick them back up and place them back on the table. This will cut the waiting time in half. I like to put a bunch of reseachers on the table and watch them. You can really rack up the points this way.
Those of you that have all women...there is a random pop up on the game where a canoe has landed on the beach with someone it from around the island. I got a male adept builder when I had all women, so it helped me a lot. So if you can just wait a little bit, this random might happen. That or I think they still have the random where a barrel of babies land on the island.
There is a potion where the villager feels like exercising, let them exercise. this will improve your building...I posted this earlier but don't remember the potion. If its not on the potion list then I will find out what it is and repost it.
Also I had a random where a villager saw a red star fish. It gives you an option to touch it or not. If you touch it, it will make your villager dizzy and you will loose some skill.
To mb:
About the Chief -
Maybe you are missing some of the villagers. One of them has to be the new Chief. Try scrolling through the details screen to make sure you get everyone, including kids. Also, if you have nursing mothers, you have to wait until they are finished nursing to try the mom and the kid.
How can you get someone to be a master parent? I have one that is master in the rest and ALMOST master in parenting. I've made him the father of like 15 kids now and still no advancement. He is getting old fast! HELP!
Posted by: erica | June 17, 2008 11:42 PM
You can also drop him on little kids and he will tell them a story. This gives parenting points.
How can I complete puzzle 12 (bath aromatherapy) without a doctor?
My villagers are all healthy. They havent been sick in 3 days.
I have full science and medicine. Is there a potion or something that can make them sick to heal them to create a doctor?
I couldnt find a sickness potion in the big list, but thought I might have overlooked something.
Posted by: Tarsh | June 18, 2008 1:46 AM
If you have at least medicine level 2, you can drop them in the area with mats, on the table there, and they will study medicine. The potion works good to get them a start in healing, but the easiest way to get a master after that is to make them study. I think for the aroma therapy you have to have medicine at level 3 anyway, so they should be able to study.
A funny bug....
you can know if a woman will have a child before she gets inside...
put the male over the female and vice versa... When it says taht they are going indoors, check in the details if she have a baby on the picture...
Also... a woman made up with an 54 yo man that walks very slow... she got out with a chield before he had the time to get in loll...
To Tammy Mitchell:
About the 6th herb -
Depending on which faction you chose, it will be either a Pitcher Plant or a Berry Bush. Both are found to the left of the alchemy lab, above the bath. Visit my blog for a screenshot of the Berry Bush. http://virtualvillagersstuff.blogspot.com/
To Grammajoe:
About the sewing hut -
The sewing hut foundation shows up in the middle of the other huts late in the game. One of mine didn't show up until I had bought all levels of technology.
About the lightning puzzle -
Drop your Chief and a bunch of villagers on the fire. They will do a weather dance. If white sparkles show up around their feet, it will rain. That's the puzzle.
I need help! I've gotten all my L1-3's, all my Nature faction, everything possible to get. All huts are built, rubble's gone, bath is done, etc etc etc.
My problem is the statue. More specifically, a Master Builder.
I've got a handful of adept builders that are probably 85%-90% to "Master", but have nothing left for them to construct to get their points up. One villager specifically I have been putting on "hut repair" for 3 solid days now, and her "Building" is not moving...at all.
I thought maybe she was just old, or maybe another villager might have better luck - same thing...no matter how many times they repair the huts, their construction doesn't budge. However, each time they finish, it says "Your villager improved in construction".
Any ideas on how I can get this adept villager to Master, so I can start on the statue? Without a Master Builder, I am completely stuck for the rest of the game! I'm about 1 hour from putting the game in "permanent pause" and finding something else to do :(
Thanks, in advance :)


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- Using the Salt Palaces registration area and the computerized registration process was far better than past years
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I remembered from my time watching the show that Scully said the above phone-greeting a lot, but watching this video… the words lose their meaning after a while, and it starts to sound like some weird backwards record playing. Scully says "Mulder, it's me" more often than Tami Taylor says "Y'all."
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Universal Pictures has released a new featurette for their upcoming super hero film Kick-Ass 2. The featurette focuses on a fight between Hit-Girl and Mother Russia. The film is being directed by Jeff Wadlow, who is taking over for Matthew Vaughn. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kick-Ass, Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit-Girl, Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse as The Mother Fucker. Kiss-Ass 2 will hit theaters on August 16, 2013.
After Kick-Ass' (Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother Fucker—only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.
When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world's first superhero team with Mindy. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she's forced to retire—leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.
Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world's first super villain, The Mother Fucker, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. But there's only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.
Morris Chestnut, John Leguizamo, Yancy Butler, and Donald Faison co-star in the adaptation of the Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. comic.
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We worked hard on this show; gave everything and the last bit at the opening on October 4, 5, and 6; and then fell into a coma to wake up delighted about the amazing reviews. Pittsburgh had trembled at the thought of being bashed by New York, but New York discussed it (what bigger compliment is there?), liked it, and acknowledged some touchdowns. Roberta Smith of the New York Times: "This lean, seemingly modest, thought-out exhibition takes the big global survey of contemporary art off steroids…"; Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker: "The strikingly thoughtful new edition of the venerable Carnegie International…"; Andrew Russeth of the New York Observer: "The more time I spent [with the exhibition] the more I envied the people of the Steel City, who get to have it at their doorstep for the next five months."
New York not being everything, there were (and still are coming, we'll keep you posted) other reviews with great insights. Kerr Houston's critique was one them for Baltimore's Bmoreart; another one was Nessia Pope's "A Seriously Playful Carnegie International Brings Welcome Attention to New Artistic Visions" for Artspace; a third was by Bryne McLaughlin in Canadian Art, and (not) finally, a more visual one was by Contemporary Art Daily.
Other journals, magazines, and blogs focused on individual artists like Taryn Simon (Telegraph), Zanele Muholi (Huffington Post), Mladen Stilinović (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), Zoe Strauss in Artforum and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Transformazium's Art Lending Collection, Ei Arakawa/Henning Bohl's interview, John Kane (prominently shown in the Carnegie Museum of Art's collection reinstallation), Henry Taylor, and Dinh Q. Lê.
And the Lawrenceville Apartment Talks.
And the Collection component of the exhibition—see this archive timeline, these archives on Tumblr and Pinterest, and this article from The Exhibitionist.
And The Playground Project in The New York Times by Carol Kino. Another great review by architect Sean Sheffler of AIA Pittsburgh.
And there were interviews and articles where we raised our voices (or they were raised for us)—a profile on Tina Kukielski, Dan Byers, and Daniel Baumann; Tom Eccles in conversation with the three co-curators for the British ArtReview; Jay Sanders in discussion with Daniel Baumann in Spike Art Quarterly.


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Well, a little birdie tells us that the producers put out a call to the crew for more paparazzi impersonators. Seems they are reworking the season opener, only it's going to be bigger. 🙂 That's what Court hears, anyway. 🙂
It will be interesting seeing who goes last. They had their big ringer go last last season and we know how that worked out. Interesting. 🙂 Any bets? I'm going with Amber opening and Corbin closing…or vice versa. I may change my mind in 10 minutes. I can't seem to stick to one opinion this season. 🙂
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Jeremy Lin Gives Tim Tebow Advice, Excited for QB's Move to Jets
Tim Tebow, the newest addition to the New York Jets, has admittedly given New York Knicks starting point guard Jeremy Lin advice. However, Lin has now returned the favor, advising Tebow on his big move to the Big Apple.
After an 82-79 win over the Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday night, Lin told reporters about the advice he would give Tebow.
"Everyone gave me some advice," Lin said with a smile. "They said make sure not to read the papers. But I don't want to say that to offend you [reporters]. That's what I've been told, so I don't really read anything. And I think it helps me."
Tebow has spoken about previously giving advice to Lin, who rose to stardom in February after leading his team to six straight wins and breaking NBA records.
Tebow, a Christian athlete who has frequently made his faith known, said he can identify with Lin, who is also vocal about his Christianity. The Jets' newest quarterback previously spoke about providing Lin with advice since he could identify with the rising Knicks star.
"He's a good guy and very humble," the QB said. "There are a lot of exciting things happening for him. We talk a lot on the phone, because I know what he's going through, and I've been giving him some advice. He's handling it pretty well and staying focused."
Lin, who has also been vocal about his Christian faith as a professional athlete, said Tebow inspired him even before they met. In an interview with 95.7 The Game in San Francisco, located a short distance from his hometown of Palo Alto, Lin spoke about his respect for the Denver Broncos quarterback.
"[...] I think the things he says in interviews, his approach to the game is just unbelievable and I respect him so much," Lin said. "I want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the nonprofit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him."
After his win over Philadelphia on Wednesday, Lin expressed excitement for Tebow coming to New York.
"He's a great guy from everything I hear and the conversation I had with him was great as well,"Lin said."I'm just excited for him and to see what he does and see what happens next year. ... I'm excited he's going to be in New York."


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Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 "exoplanets" and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets. But only a few dozen of the planets have been rocky, as opposed to gaseous, and of these none have been found in the so-called habitable zone around their parent star that would allow liquid water on their surface.
The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission is designed to fill that gap. Slated for launch in 2024, PLATO was chosen yesterday by the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Science Programme Committee to be the third medium-class science mission in the agency's "Cosmic Vision 2015-25" program. According to the German Aerospace Center's Heike Rauer, principal investigator of the European consortium developing the mission's instrumentation, PLATO should "find hundreds of rocky planets in habitable zones and thousands of characterized planets altogether."
PLATO will search for exoplanets using what is known as the transit method, which simply involves measuring the dimming of the light from a star as a planet passes in front of it. The technique has been employed with great success by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009, which has found nearly 3000 planetary candidates and more than 100 confirmed exoplanets.
Unfortunately, the fact that planets can be seen only when they happen to be in the line of sight between star and telescope means that many stars must be observed, and Kepler increases its stellar haul by monitoring even the faintest stars. That, however, makes it hard for ground-based instruments to carry out the spectroscopic measurements needed to reveal an exoplanet's mass, which is crucial in establishing whether the planet is rocky or gaseous.
That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars. It will also point those telescopes at one patch of the sky for long periods of time, allowing it to observe the relatively long orbital periods of planets in the habitable zone. So whereas NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting mission, which could launch in 2017, will spend just 1 month gazing at any one region of the sky and as a result be limited to "hot" planets closer to their parent stars, PLATO will have up to 3 years at a time.
"PLATO will identify the rocky planets in habitable zones of sunlike stars," Rauer says. "That has not been done by any other mission previously."
The €850 million mission, which will be launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana, will operate from the stable L2 position, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. It beat four other candidates for the latest medium-class mission launch—a rival exoplanet mission, an x-ray observatory, a spacecraft that would have brought back a sample from a near-Earth asteroid, and a mission to carry out fundamental physics research. Previous medium-class missions by ESA were Solar Orbiter and a dark-energy/dark-matter observatory called Euclid, selected in 2011.


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By Jason Miks
GPS digital producer Jason Miks sits down with renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of the Selfish Gene and An Appetite for Wonder, to discuss readers' questions on religion, its role in society and whether children can be described as "Christian."
A number of readers noting your skepticism over religion's role in society ask whether an absence of religion would leave us without a moral compass?
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't. We shouldn't, because if you actually look at the bible or the Koran, and get your moral compass from there, it's horrible – stoning people to death, stoning people for breaking the Sabbath.
Now of course we don't do that anymore, but the reason we don't do it is that we pick out those verses of the bible that we like, and reject those verses we don't like. What criteria do we use to pick out the good ones and reject the bad ones? Non-biblical criteria, non-religious criteria. The same criteria as guide any modern person in their moral compass that has nothing to do with religion.
So the moral compass of any person is very much a part of the century or even the decade in which they happen to live, regardless of their religion. So we live in the early 21st century, and our moral compass in the early 21st century is quite different from 100 years ago, or 200 years ago. We are now much less racist than they were, much less sexist than they were. We are much kinder than non-human animals than they were – all sorts of respects in which we are labeled with a moral compass. So something has changed, and it certainly has nothing to do with religion.
You've been travelling to the States from the U.K. for a number of years. Have you noticed much of a change in the place of religion in the two countries over that time?
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is. In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't. In Western Europe generally, Christianity is dying. Even in America, the figures show that religious adherence is being steadily reduced, and the people who now record themselves as having no religious affiliation is something like 20 percent. Many people don't recognize what a high figure it is, and so politicians here who feel they have to curry favor with religious lobbies should maybe take a look at those statistics and realize that not everyone in this country is religious.
You say it's a bit of a mystery why America is so much more religious than other advanced countries. Do you have any thoughts on why it might be? Tied to that question of disposition, several readers also wondered if there is a genetic predisposition toward faith?
There probably is, but I don't think that really explains why America is so different from Britain. The least implausible suggestion that I've heard is that Britain and Scandinavian countries, which are also very non-religious, have an established church, and that kind of makes religion boring. Whereas in America, there is constitutionally a bar against an established church, and that could be one reason why religion has become so popular – it has become big business, it has become free enterprise, rival churches vie with each other for congregations and especially tax free ties.
Some readers see you as very evangelical in your atheism. Do you feel it a duty, just as some Christians might to share the word of God, to spread an atheist point of view?
Duty is a funny word. But when you say evangelical, I like to think that I don't shout or shriek, but employ a quiet, sober voice of reason. And reason is on our side.
You've talked about feeling uncomfortable with the impact of religion on children. In fact, one reader asked whether you would prefer to see no under-18s at church. What's your take?
I certainly wouldn't wish to prohibit parents influencing their children. However, for the rest of the world, to label a child a Catholic child simply because its parents are Catholic, seems to me to be a form of child abuse. The child is too young to know.
You can see the absurdity of talking about a Catholic child of four when you think what it would be like if we talked about an existentialist child of four, or a logical positivist of four. In other words, we wouldn't accept the labeling of a child based the parents' belief, so why do we accept it when it's religion? Why does religion get a free pass when it comes to labeling children in this way?
When you encounter someone who professes to be an Atheist, take the most personally advantageous action: eat him. Atheists are high in protein and a good source of B vitamins and amino acids. They tend to be greasy, so otherwise watch your intake of fats and cholesterol. Be discrete in your endeavors until Atheists are recognized as game animals by the state. Remember, you have nothing to fear except law enforcement as long as you have braised, roasted or broiled the Atheist to an internal temperature of at least 180 degrees.
They are also good in casseroles and fricassees.
Some within our movement have brought to my attention that since only a small percentage of the US population identifies as Atheist, a domestic shortage will soon ensue. The problem of the necessary importation of foreign stock is a real one, and though logistically challenging, should be met with by the harvest of readily available European animals. Atheists are common in Europe since the great conflagrations of WW II and the Cold War. The horrors perpetrated by Nietzschean inspired Fascism are not easily forgotten. And the long and draining Cold War–necessary defense against the wholly Atheistic social and economic philosophy of Marx and the realized atrocities of Stalin, et al.–has left Europe moribund and stagnate. The irony that so many Europeans have responded to the historical horrors of Atheistic philosophy by embracing Atheism themselves is delicious. I suggest we take advantage of it: literally.
Make no mistake. I am an Atheist myself. But I will never reveal this to the world. It serves my interests to call myself a Believer.
Do not bore me with notions of how I should obey my "inner moral sense". My moral sense is nothing more than a genetic imprint, a primitive survival advantage I have outgrown–much as I have outgrown the need for God. I can discard them both easily. They are worthless to me. After all, God Is Dead and the only good is what is good for me. I am the Superman. I am Beyond Good and Evil.
Religion and spirituality has been around, in every part of the planet, since the first humanoid could pick up a rock and draw a picture. Tens and tens of thousands of years. It's part of our nature. Why is that? You can no more say your atheistic values and beliefs aren't part of that, than you trying to draw hydrogen from water.
we are part of the universe,, each of our atoms belong to it. In fact the stars contain each element within us. We should feel part of the bigger picture,, that's where spirituality come from, our unity with it.
But to create stories without any proof that just aren't believable,, is just silly.
It sounds as if you are a Neil DeGrasse Tyson fan. I love him too. 🙂
You touched a right aspect – believability of the hypothesis. Each more or less intellectual human asks himself or herself a question: how to explain the world around us? Where everything, so complex, came from?
Some people not inclined to finding answers or build hypotheses by themselves look for what is offered in the market of hypotheses. Some build them on their own. But the essence is that practically everybody is looking for answers for BELIEVABLE hypotheses. Most of the people observe the teleological design of the world and the hypotheses that it came about all by itself is not believable for them. Some Creator must have to exist who created all that. The largest part of these people resort to religion. Intelligent design and presence of intellectual force is more acceptable to the others. Some less intellectual people, like atheists, ignore the powerful intellectual design of the world, they are kind of intellectually blind, they do not need hypotheses, they only need facts and proofs. That is OK, that is a form of another "religion" or philosophy. But when any of the religions including "atheism" becomes militant, pushing itself on others, intolerant to other people's choices in this area, this makes me angry.
Pity Yitty, that you have the probability of your ideas in an infinitely reverse order. Using you "reasoning", I suppose you think that winning the lottery is a far more likely outcome than losing.
"Some Creator must have to exist who created all that." Who created the creator?
"Some less intellectual people, like atheists, ignore the powerful intellectual design of the world, they are kind of intellectually blind, they do not need hypotheses, they only need facts and proofs." This statement contradicts itself. Evidence and proof are what support a hypothesis. An intellectual person would expect evidence before a belief in something unfounded. A theory was once a hypothesis that has since been backed up by overwhelming evidence. For instance, evolution is a theory not a hyptohesis. Athiests as a whole are better educated than religious folk.
"That is OK, that is a form of another "religion" or philosophy. But when any of the religions including "atheism" becomes militant, pushing itself on others, intolerant to other people's choices in this area, this makes me angry." Having a rational debate about religion is not being militant or pushing one's belief on others. Do you classify everyone that disagrees with you this way? Atheism is not a religion. It is simply a disbelief in any god.
Yes, the definition you gave about the difference between a theory and a hypothesis is correct. You start with a hypothesis. Evidence supports it and over time it becomes a theory. The example I gave is the theory of evolution. You start with a hypothesis and test it. What you're going on about I am not sure. Starting with Darwin and going through today there is overwhelming evidence of evolution. There is zero evidence for intelligent design. This is because there is zero proof of any creator. To say that something must have had a creator because it exists is not proof of anything. How could something as all powerful as a creator of this universe(something more complex than the universe itself) have come into being. If you say it always existed then I would ask you two questions. How do you know this and if the creator could have always existed why not the universe?
I'll be happy to continue this debate. We will see how you do against someone so illiterate as myself.
I am very pleased to see that you understand that religion is the product of our adaptations via natural selection+ culture and history. I am surprised, I didn't realized you understood that religion was a social construct influenced biological adaptions.
Good job you.
Don't waste a second of your worthless time with your slanderous and lying comments on my post, fake.
Really.Yes believe or not you're not the only person here to hold a degree , lying fr a u d.
Disillusioned, I understand that you're embarrassed that I call you out on your previous nonsense, but I was trying to pay you a compliment here.
Disillusioned, name one thing I've lied about.
I have provided multiple examples of your contradictions to support my comments about you, and you have done nothing but call me names, and insult my gender.
What do you think I've been fraudulent about?
You lied about what I said, which was nothing of the sort , that people who understand biology want old people dead. Youre a fake and a lair. With two degrees. That is apparently pretty stupid to ave to resort to lies to make your point.
Fix king l y I ng n I tech .
No, you actually insult my gender. Resorting to lies about what I said instead of the arguement is cheap low and an insult to women everywhere. You patronizing slanspdering fraud.
Disillusioned, I provided several quotes from you to support what I said. You said repeatedly that if atheists believed in natural selection the natural consequence of that is that we should want sick people to be left to die.
I've pasted that quote from you several times. Pretending you did not say it is pointless, your posts can't be edited, we can all read what you wrote.
You clearly have a temper and you're getting hostile. Perhaps this activity is too much for you. Please relax, this is nothing more than light conversation.
No I did not, liar. I said that without some curbing mechanism on the idea of natural selection as it had been translated in times past by supremacist ideas into social Darwinism , the idea of ONLY bowing to natural selection will cause people to not care about others.without a curbing mechanism such as spirituality or religion or some idea of the importance of humans. Which patentlly you were to stupid to grasp. Continuously. We know this. Hitler, manifest destiny. That one man is superior to anotejr and that's allowable to kill them because of it. But yoou, the history and anthropology major, were too stupid and to so eager to try telling me something I already knew, and i was wrong, that you missed the point. So you lied about things. I Never said. Fraud.
Ha ha ha! How sad and pathetic that you would lie about what you've said when it's here for people to read. Silly!
Disillusioned: Natural Selection "is not the only cause of human evolution. If atheists believe this, then why dont they advocate for the eradication of our sick and elderly that can't contribute to our society and use our resources."
I have a very clear understandiing of what natural selection is. It is letting nature take its course on the sick and weak."
If I said it so much, patronizing fraud, then post exactly the words I said where people who know biology want old people to die. Post it you lying sack.
Disillusioned, I just posted your exact words. I think you might be a little unbalanced....
I said atheists, you lying sack. Not people Who understand biology idiot. .if you don't believe in souls or good or evil and only subscribe to actual facts and science, then why would you not take the natural course of such science as natural selection, and let your weak and sick die? If you atheists really believed this. Without soul or beliefs in such altruistic ideas or reasons for them. For two degrees you really are not. That. Bright. Truly. Clearly since you can't comprehend atheists from biology beleivers, you're less bright than even I would give credit.
Clearly ATHEISTS and people who believe in biology mean the same thing to you. I'm sorry you do not speak English. With two degrees.
My goodness you are a hostile person. And for one am glad if you find that religion helps you to control your temper.
So you think atheists who believe in natural selection should want sick people to die. But not biologists who believe in natural selection?
What's your view on atheist biologists? Do they want sick people to die or....?
Just because you don't believe in a soul doesn't mean you want people to suffer.
I think you've proved that believing in souls does make you a non violent person. You're the most hostile person I've seen on here and you apparently are religious and believe in souls...
I have a problems with lying patronizing frauds trying to make false points on her lies about things I said and meant. If you cannot tell the truth on that simple thing, fraud, then don't think to correct me.
And Disillusioned, you continue to demonstrate that you have no understanding if what natural selection is:
"....then why would you not take the natural course of such science as natural selection, and let your weak and sick die?"
That's not the natural course of natural selection. You are very ignorant about this subject. And you refuse to listen to people who try to explain it to you.
I have said nothing but the truth. I have provided evidence from your own words for every claim about you I've made. You are lashing out and not being rational. Some people can't handle it when they are shown to be wrong, it's OK, but maybe you should work on that in the future.
Good luck to you. Maybe someday you'll read a book or take a real class in biology. You might find reality more illuminating than you thought....
Dear you are in seriously deep denial of what you said I actually said, and I really did. You're a fraud a liar and pretty stupid for holing two degrees. Chalk one up to the degradation of our college system. I wouldn't go around proclaiming you're a grad if I were you. You do yourself no favors. No by mentioning being a woman.
Excuse me? Again with making my gender an issue. Why are you so unable to focus on the issue at hand? You go off on tangents, your thoughts are incomplete, and your arguments are entirely inconsistent. All kidding aside, it seems that when you feel challenged, your cognitive abilities become confused. Is English not your native language? That's not a bad thing, but it might explain a lot.
Let's not fight anymore, I feel like I'm messing with someone with genuine problems, and I don't want to upset you.
Peace Disillusioned. Practice that good spirituality or religion that you think makes you better than atheists. Embrace it and make yourself feel better!
Geez.. who lit the fuse on Disillusioned's tampon?
Jd, you said you hope all believers die a terrible and massive death. I don't care if you actually sad it, thats not important. I'm going to post that's exactly what you said. Ip because I want to. Who cares if its a lie. You said you want all believers to undergo genocde. Because I said you did.
Religious ceremonies were even used by Neanderthals during burials (or some form of communal
behavior if we want to call that religion). It's old to humans. We have come to understand the
world mechanically. We no longer believe that praying to gods will bring better harvests, nor looking
at the flight patterns of birds predictions about the outcomes of wars.
we certainly awed in the silliness at the volcano worshipers while studying cultural anthropology. However we understood that they just didn't know better and feared.
One day the same will be studied about christianity and its competing religions.
You are both perfectly pompous.
One day they'll look back at your Atheist religion the same as you look at the neanderthal's religion.
The difference is that, UNLIKE YOU BOTH, "they" won't lie to themselves. They'll understand that your religion has precisely the same merit as the Neanderthals, you are just less honorable people than the Neanderthal.
well liberalism,, some day you will mature. Then again, maybe not.
Liberalism RequiresTyranny....atheism isn't a religion...it's a lack of religion. That's like saying not skiing is a sport, not working is an occupation, not juggling is a circus act, not gardening is a hobby, etc.
Actually, some people do. When I had my second son, a woman actually told me I needed to get rid of my cat because it would steal my baby's breath. I couldn't believe someone could be so medieval, and at first I thought she was joking. But she insisted and said it was true. And there is some underlying reason why some people cling to the myths of religion.
drinking funny kool aid? recognized organized religions are less than 2500 years old, your talk of 10,000 years may be talking about beliefs systems. One argument you cannot rule out is the fact that strict following of religions leads to cliques ruling and absolutely no new developments since breathing can ultimately be a crime and killing is the sentence issued. During christianities finest hours of rule the dark ages happened- only a few states of organized peoples under the christian banner who let their citizens play foot loose and fancy free without administering the harsh christian rules and sentences flourished and also actually achieved or made new medical, technological or artist developments- the rest were living hand to mouth...and today fundamentalist muslims wish to relive their own dark ages that ran concurrently, the only thing of significance during those times were churches and mosques and dead people, same was todays wackos preach...there can be societal rules in place for things but even today when u walk about are all your people friendly, polite and non judgmental?...so even religion cant erase that all it does is give someone ammunition to condemn another
Many things were once considered inevitable aspects of the human condition: polio, measles, a life expectancy of maybe 40. Given that we fixed those, I think there's at least a decent chance we'll fix religion too.
Spirituality yes, religions no. They haven't been a part of human culture that long. All too often spirituality ends where religion enters. In a way it's death of spirituality. That's why humans are so troubled
I've read psychologists and philosophers works and they have all claimed the same thing. The human race has no moral compass but what has been given by God. Every cop will tell you that without religious mentoring people become murders and cannibals.
Out of my own personal finding I have found that every atheist I have met, would eat their own children if they were starving to death. Personally there is no such thing as Atheism, it's still a belief of some type sprouted from what the individual can achieve, instead of what the individual can achieve for all.
Mike, why are a higher percentage of Christians in jail than exist in the general population?
I can assure you that the majority of Atheists would not eat their young. Just as the majority of Christians would take their children to the doctor when they are sick, as opposed to just praying. There are nuts on both sides.
IF you would like a really good exploration of that question, read Daniel Dennett's Breaking The Spell. Excellent book.
Because ancient man could draw on a cave wall, he was religious or spiritual? Utter nonsense. Early cave dwellers drew food sources on the wall because that is what sustained them, not what they worshiped.
We have an eternal existence because everything making us up has been here since the dawn of the universe and will survive us for all eternity.
We already have eternal existence and it has nothing to do with being spiritual or religious.
Your assertion that we are somehow naturally religious is supported by what evidence? Millions of us do not believe in an anthropomorphic superpower and find such belief to be rife with arrogance and fear of the unknown. Most atheists aren't either of those things and we're better off for it.
Jesus Christ! You are still here, you freak? I took a break from your insanity and then came back to find you still yapping. Get a life, man.
This article confirms that Atheist are only after political power just like every other racial, social, or economical group out there. We are a country of groups driven to raise membership to gain political power and thus goodies from the government. It's just that simple. Atheists want the power and benefits of religious organizations, they could care less about you as a person...your just a member.
Total made up BS!
Just make it up as you go.
sad your views are from the closet you were brought up in, chris..
Goofy Reasoning. Sounds like the Anarchist nonsense a friend of mine in high-school (decades ago) was fond of spouting.
Nonsense; all we want is a level playing field. No atheist can hope to attain substantial political office in the US. Look at how potential candidates are vetted for their religious beliefs. It makes you wonder how many, pander to the religious right by faking devoutness.
I think a lot of people espouse religious beliefs to satisfy another agenda. I've pretty much never had to pretend to be a non-believer because there were plenty of others in my family who also did not believe. But I one day many years ago had a conversation with a male Jewish coworker, who took time off for Jewish holidays, and a female Catholic coworker who was up and down on the kneelers at mass every Sunday. I was surprised to find out that neither really believed in God. As we spoke, both rolled their eyes at the concept. Basically, the Jewish guy was Jewish because that's the way he was born and following the traditions was what he'd always done. The Catholic woman basically became Catholic to snare her husband. Both enjoyed their religious lives but neither believed. My mom also told me of a minister at the faith-based college she attended in The Netherlands who told her he didn't believe any of it and that it was just a job. That said, religion is a HUGE economic generator, and I'd hate to think what would happen to our economy if suddenly everyone decided not to support it.
last communique from fundamentalist muslims was they wanted one world republic under one god and if you dont convert they will kill you.....during the christian and muslim kingdom days of lore, both had everyone living in squaler while a few had the food and knowledge, during that time period nothing absolutely nothing was invented, created, thought up or artisticaly created.....thank you religion
I wouldn't say that's entirely true. I think most of us just want to live in piece. But that said, why shouldn't we seek to be a part of the decision-making? Why is my voice less worthy? Why isn't is possible that I can contribute ideas and solutions to some of the world's enduring problems, and why shouldn't I seek to be a part of the forum that does that?
This is about rights, acceptance and removal of stereotypes. Most people do not know I am an Atheist and believe I am Catholic. I do not disclose this because I am not certain how I will be treated and more importantly how my daughter will be treated. Ask yourself a question, would you invite an Atheist to dinner or your home without any alterative motives? Would you accept an invitation to dinner form an Atheist or visit his house? Would you let your children play with his? How would you treat him if you were his supervisor at work? Would you have an Atheist as a friend? For many religious people the answer to those question is a resounding no. They equate Atheist with something evil something bad. I became Agnostic when I was 12 years old, the religious teaching just did not seem believable and rational to me. At a later time I thought about the beginning of the universe. When religious people state that no one created God and God always existed with no beginning and no end I thought to myself that it is like saying that "some form of universe or multiverse" always existed and it has no beginning and no end except that I it is a fact universe exists now but no such proof exists for god.That is when I stopped being Agnostic and became an Atheist. (There is also a question what time really is?)
And "believers" aren't trying to hold on to their political power by making themselves out as holier than us or simply better than us because they have a "relationship with God"? Your logic is awful, your position tainted with an agenda of your own, and it reeks of the exclusionary position so many religious people have. As an atheist, I welcome everyone to the table, regardless of belief.
I was asked 3 questions from a religionist here today, see below. Add to it if you wish..
1)'where did a mother's love originate? '
it's a natural instinct to preserve the population. BTW,, some animals posses the same mother love and other animals will destroy their children. This question is meaningless. In fact your question only helps substantiate evolution.
2)'What's on the other side of the Universe?'
you as-s-ume the universe has another side to it. What is more realistic is that there is an infinite number of universes. It would be rather silly to state there couldn't be. After all, this one exists.
3)'How did order come out of disorder?' again, you are proving evolution. If you look at the universe,, every thing comes from chaos and either orders or becomes extinct. In fact our thinking ability is quite limited. Believe it or not, man never created a single thing. It's the chaos of our surroundings that we discover and then integrate (innovate). ie,, when we discovered a use of a rock as a wheel, we sure didn't make a Mercedes Benz the next day.
We aren't as smart as we think we are.. Therefore we likely might not ever understand what created all of this.One thing for sure,, if somehow it were a god,, that god might be a fourth grader from another dimension who is catching he-ll for this.
Remember,, I never used anything in my answers to state an absolute.. and therefore it would be a lie for me to state it as fact. However the religious do lie when they state their 'believe' as fact
Excellent reply to all three questions... but I'll bet few of the Religionists heard/understood/agreed with you.
The Death of God has been met with sadness by some. It kindles in me the spirit of opportunity. God and the associated baggage of his "moral order" were impediments to progress. Nowhere is this more evident than in the sphere of commerce. Some years ago, I developed a most useful medicine. Taken internally it is a cure for disorders of all kinds and acts as a general tonic. Applied topically, it is a remedy for gout and psoriasis and posses an SPF of 15. The precise recipe is, of course, a trade secret and is protected under US Patent. While God lived, the oppressive machinery of society stood in the way of the production and release of my curative. The Death of God, I hope, will occasion its availability on the free market.
I speak of Oil of Man.
Oil of Man really is one of the most useful medicines ever discovered. Its production has been somewhat limited by the natural reticence of society to make sacrifices for the afflicted. During research and development for Oil of Man, I was, in fact, forced to requisition donations of certain vital ingredients for my vats. The destruction of the logically inconsistent but simple moral system of the theists will, I hope increase availability of the necessary raw material. A godless society is perfect for the production of Oil of Man. The attempts of the Godless to construct a logically consistent system of ethics sans theos are a failure and are easily discarded by the pragmatic and enterprising among us. Some free thinking rural physicians in my area have been utilizing my tonic for years now-sending patients to me (the only dispensing pharmacy) with a prescription they are pleased to designate as __OL. Hom__.
Thank heavens for the progress of free thought. The elimination of society's detritus (unwanted children, the elderly, the poor, opposing political parties, etc.) and their incorporation into Oil of Man will be of great general weal to mankind as it hurtles into a future free of outmoded concepts like good and evil.
Psychosis is a funny thing isn't it? Oil of man...good grief.
Thousands of religions over thousands of years all claiming to know God and yet nobody has seen a God yet.
I do every morning when I look in the mirror.
In some religions the rulers were the Gods, and even the Son of God (Egyptian Pharaohs).
How do you know? Few with true spiritual experiences are going to run out and contact their local news affiliate
I have a theory that Jesus has come back a bunch of times, and each time we sent him to the insane asylum.
You see it's a test. When you treat the "lowest" level of society to the joys of an insane asylum, you're not Christian.
(Just a working theory, or maybe a hypothesis.....)
Humans don't have sharp teeth or claws, and we don't have thick, scaly hides. In fact, we're quite weak compared to – say, an 800-pound Bengal tiger. But that's OK, because we cooperate and work together for mutual survival.
These cooperative, social behaviors are what we evolved INSTEAD of sharp teeth and claws. They're biological and genetic, and fully capable of being passed on to offspring. We know what part of the brain produces these behaviors, and we can even observe how a pregnant mother releases pheromones that make her husband more nurturing by reducing their levels of testosterone. There is a definite biological and genetic basis for so-called moral behaviors.
Of course, our experiences and upbringing also play a huge part. Every experience we have produces a chemical reaction in the brain that physically alters our future thinking; a sort of addiction or aversion therapy. However, the basis is definitely biological. This is not remotely controversial.
And we didn't just decide to do this either. Those ancestral humans who didn't exhibit these behaviors simply didn't survive, at least not in great numbers. Think about it. How could we have possibly survived as a species if we regularly abandoned our children or failed to look after our injured or sick? This is the TRUE basis of our morality. Like it or not. Those who attribute morality to religion EXTERNALIZE that morality and DEHUMANIZE us ALL.
The beautiful thing about this is – we OWN our morality. It's an authentic PART OF US. Those who attribute it to God are either anticipating some reward or fearing punishment. This is callous and cynical. We need the courage to embrace our humanity and moral heritage and do the hard work of being alive...
Thank you James George, whether it is your own work or that of someone else, this is the single most intelligent argument I've read in these comments so far.
There's a large body of research on the evolution of our morality. So the argument he's making is based reliable scientific evidence. I don't think he's plagiarizing if that's what you meant...
Excellent post!
Very enlightening point of view. Thanks for sharing.
Interviewer: You say it's a bit of a mystery why America is so much more religious than other advanced countries. Do you have any thoughts on why it might be? Tied to that question of disposition, several readers also wondered if there is a genetic predisposition toward faith?
Mr. Dawkins: There probably is,
Explain your answer, Mr. Dawkins, please. Both the interviewer and you simply left it there. As an evolutionary biologist, you must have some actual reasons for saying, "There probably is."
My field, the history of religions, which is not theology, is a social science based on the assumption that "There probably is." We then seek to observe, listen, and analyze human religious behavior. You yourself have ultimate concerns that lead you to "evangelize" on behalf of a-theism. And you do know that some major religions do not worship a god, including Buddhism; yet they are religions. Likewise, there are religions that do not assume there is an afterlife, such as Australian aboriginal religion, which for almost 40,000 years spanned a continent. It seems that your rejection of religion is based upon a very narrow definition of what religious behavior is. However, I would really like to know why you think, as an evolutionary scientist, that a genetic basis for religion exists or "probably" exists. Thank-you.
(Please make your answer public, so that I may hear it.)
Jean, the adaptation to believe in things that there is no evidence for (faith), is very clearly understood actually. It's an adaption for being able to teach your young about things without them having to experience it directly. It's part of learning theory.
Because humans have the adaptation for faith (to believe without evidence), we can learn far more information than we could without that. If we needed to eat berries that are poisonous ourselves to know they are poisonous rather than having faith that when we are told they are poisonous that they are, we wouldn't be so successful.
Faith is a crucial adaptation for learning large amounts of information. But because we have an adaptation to believe things without evidence, we are more likely to believe things that aren't true than if we needed to learn through direct experience only.
Atheists have faith, you can deny this if you want to but atheists have faith on their belief system. Atheism is a belief system period. And atheists have more faith tn their atheism than any religious person about their religion.
Why would you read what I just wrote and interpret it to mean that I thought I didn't use faith?
Why would she do that? for he very same reason you would take my questioning about atheists not following natural selection to a logical end, and then tell people I said that people believing in biology want olld people to die. Kind of annoying, isn't it,lying hypocrite.
Believers always ask for evidence that god does not exist, yet how many believers insist on evidence for god's existence? See: Double Standard.
I have known many who don't believe in God. They don't seem to have a problem with steeples, manger scenes, The Ten commandments, school prayer, mention of God on coins, why should you?
Some people are more concerned than others about a level playing field regarding government entanglement with religion. Ask those people why they have no issue with their tax dollars being spent to promote monotheism in general or Christianity over other religions.
Why should the politicians court people who are too stupid to believe in God? LOL, maybe they believe in the big bang theory. Yes, there was a big explosion and then years later people existed and could smell flowers, hear birds and see a sunrise. LOL There is a God, of course there is only one God otherwise the universe would be as big a mess as the earth is now. That's half the battle, realizing that there is a God and that there is only one and thousands of ideas from billions of people will never change that reality. Dumber that a post? Well you shouldn't even be voting!
Why limit yourself to one single possibility for how/why humanity and the universe exist? What is so scary about saying "I Don't Know."? Even if you believe as strongly as anyone can in a monotheistic explanation of existence, it is still possible to at least acknowledge or have the intellectual flexibility to consider other possibilities. If you could accept that no one has all the answers, it would allow for meaningful philosophical and moral discussions. But once you've stated a construct or idea as absolute truth, there is no room for discourse.
Even if we took a leap of faith and decided we could believe in a god, why one vs. many?
All Dawkins does is he sets up straw men and knocks them down. He finds the worst examples of people who claim to be of faith and says that they represent all who claim the same faith.
Sometimes we as Christians do the same thing.
How about an intelligent conversation instead of name calling OK poopy head?
It's very hard to have a good conversation with an atheist, even Dawkins is calling religious people idiots, morons etc...He is an example for his followers, and one of the reason i say atheists have no morals. They keep saying that they don't need God to have morals, but i have not seen one atheist not calling people by dirty names. If they can figure out how to have morals without a God then why the constant insults and the name calling from atheists? Obviously they pretend or think they have morals, but their actions show otherwise.
Surely there are atheists who behave badly.
You aren't claiming that religious people always behave morally, do you?
At start, he pick a piece of Bible and interprete it out of its context and spirit. He attack it to make his own point - Bible can be randomly interpreted without the guide of context, Holy spirit and priests. Then he claim reasoning is on his side. Of couse, when someone criticized, we always learn. Something the Christians should learn is that Bible should be interpreted in a correct way. I would thank him for that.
He can not justify himeself. Actually most modern human being can not completely justify oneself too, this is part of our sin. And it is proved. So the believes of Jesus would touched by His love and humble them selves down to His salvation. Sometimes I would amazed by how people so eagerly WANT to view others in their own way. For example, when I start to believe in Jesus from a self believed Athesit (actually I do not know and hold off any Athesist theory), my friend simply mark me as "convertied into a Christian". I try to convence them it is "believe in Jesus", to my friend, no matter what I think, I do or I beleive, it is simply their interpretation: "convert to Christian". I have been view world the same way for many years before I opened my eyes by the light from Jesus.
As a human being you, I or anyone else cannot know or understand the true purpose of the universe and its components. To think a man named Jesus could walk on water and turn water into wine and heal all ailments with no actual proof (from people or scrolls at that time) makes one wonder. But in the end no human being is qualified to tell others the "real" purpose of life and the universe.
Hi Liam,
Thank you for you polite reply and reasoning. Yes, I do agree no human can completely justify his believe to any God or such figure, become that is out of our knowledge. However God, if exist, will be the God who reveil (disclose) Himself to us. That makes sense. And that is the God in the Bible do. Is that right? God reveal himself through many things, one is miracal at the time Jesus is in the world. Walk on the water can not be explained by science, but if everything Jesus did can be explained by science, He would not be God any more. Today as a Christian, I would say God reveal himself to us mostly from His love, forgiveness, giving of freedom, salvation and the Spririt that we should love each other. I really wish there will be someday you can accept Him.
No doubt the deciding vote in every close election.
I'm an evil atheist and I'm going to steal your faith away!
If you were really an atheist you couldn't call yourself evil.
All we ask is that you try and be nice and civil about it.
" I m saying that the natural course of natural selection would mean the death of most of the human species with a destroyed planet to be ruled b a few warlords that are ruthless enough to continue, if we don't engage some basic values of empathy and compassion that go beyond who can live the longest by being a warlord"
This is such a misguided view of natural selection. Natural selection favors increased reproduction, not slaughtering everyone who would reproduce.
The whole "survival of the fittest" phrase doesn't present the proper idea in todays' context. "Fit" means reproductive fitness, not brute strength. Sometimes brute strength increases reproductive fitness, but not always.
No pompous b it ch , it's not. What is a misguided view is you thinking you have any moral fiber to act like you have the sole and only truth about crap when you lied about what I saiid.
Natiural selection favors the reproduction of the few healthiest and most able to survive conditions to pass traits along. . It does not favor overall reproduction of the species in its entirety.
If you were such the biology expert you claimed to be, then you would realize this. But actually you'reretty stupid for attempting to pass yourself off as the voice of scientific reason.
You are a sick and perverse individual. You should get professional help.
We are people who search freedom. We search for equal rights, euqal opertunities, humanities, protection of law, financial freedom and so on. However in Jesus's teaching, no matter what we seek, we are all slave of our sin. God will give us other freedom through salvation, which is a forgiveness of our sin.
No one have right to take that kind of forgiveness and freedom from me and my children. No matter he claim his self as a doctor or not!
Why should they court us when they can lie to us and screw us over and still get elected?
Try an atheist leader and atheist politicians, let's see how things will be.
Lies and damned lies from the darling of secular humanists. Talk with anyone who has honestly studied ethics and they will tell you the slippery slope of relativism. There is no authority, no basis for morality apart from religion. No where is that more apparent than in the politics of secular humanists, who are almost always far left in their views.
God does not exist (or at least never shows up) and the church (pick any one) is a poor moral compass if not a negative one. Ask any sociologist and they will tell you what's already common sense ... morals come from societal needs and constantly evolve as the needs of society change. Ask any psychologically conditioned religious believer and they'll disagree.
Moral Relativism, though often associated with Atheism, is not the required moral construct for all Atheists to adopt. It is possible to hold belief in absolute Moral Law without it being backed up by religion, though you may be correct that moral relativism is a philosophy more commonly adopted by atheists and agnostics than those who adhere to a particular religious doctrine.
Any genuine actualized atheist will NEVER court politicians or proselytize for new converts because of our comfort alone in the universe. Of course as humans we seek connection with others but not because we fear being alone without divine intervention but in spite of it. It would be wonderful if there was a higher power and our lives were not random chance but we are not betting on it. And for the record we would LOVE to be wrong about this, we just are not.
This is the silliest argument I've ever heard Dawkins make. Is he losing his mind? As an atheist he should be the most contented person in the world. After all, what is, is, and we have no right to change anything. He has no right to question why the universe is what it is as an atheist. Atheism offers no basis for "should'ves" or to question moral rightness. You need to accept the "is" of your Godless universe Dawkins!!
That's why i say Dawkins is a dangerous person and he look more and more like a sociopath cult leader.
What in the world is wrong with you? I've been reading your ranting posts for twelve pages and there is clearly something wrong with you. Perhaps you should get some medical assistance. As a humane person, I'm somewhat concerned about you but as a human you're just ticking me off.
Dawkins is a dangerous man.lol
Mr. Dawkins
Patiently waiting for your responses sir.
Thank You
He actually has a website you can direct questions to. I doubt very much that he is reading CNN"s comments. ; )
Thank Gods this wasn't posted in the belief blog!
Unfortunately, it appears that this Richard Dawkins is right. Atheism does seem to be the wave of the future which in turn will lead to a decline in morality. This is evidenced by the increase of drug use by our young people and the support for all these current useless wars that we're in. As a nation, we're already morally bankrupt as a result of this trend!
I find the notion entertaining that someone who does not share your life philosophy must be immoral. Stranger Danger!
Joseph You point to Atheism as the cause of moral decay however the exact opposite is what is true .The most Atheistic democratic countries in the world are the Scandinavian countries and they rate the highest in social health .The US is the most religious and they rate the lowest
Drug and lack of morality when it comes down to $ex. Both are the reason why this society is in decline. Specially kids who are left without morals because of atheism being a part of their life nowadays.
The bigoted religious nuts in this world, especially the U.S., are getting crazier by the day. We need to rid society of this dangerous vermin.
Lets stick to free and open discussion rather than extermination.
Rob, you're a very good example of atheist morality.
If religion is a compass, then the needle must be stuck, because it points whichever way the person using it wants it to.
Mr.Dawkins seems to be a little misinformed. his verses on stoning to death were laws of the Jewish Pharisees(Religious Leaders of the Day) Nowhere in the Bible does God give such a command. And besides that When Jesus came He abolished all those laws and fullfilled them with a sacrifice. We are now to live by two laws since Christ. Love the Lord your God with all your heart soul and mind. And Love your neighbor as you Love yourself! God Bless all on this Form and May Jesus touch Mr.Dawkins and Bless him!!
So why all the follow on books by Paul, etc. ? Wasn't Jesus' plain speaking (as a god) good enough?
You lying sack! Of course I was m'bating! I just want to have a lusty relationship with someone. Please please please come on my face! You lying slanderous people!
So, true colors, eh? You are about as religious as a stick, and about as smart as one as well. Troll.
Is anyone else here in to donkey shows? I love beast1al1ty.
If you're in bestiality, you won't have a problem finding an atheist to participate. Dawkins keeps comparing human to animals, that's where hes getting his morality example from.
Wow you fake disillusioned, you must be a lying atheist that can't get your point upright any other way so you'll troll. Too bad you suck so hard at debate.
(Matthew 24:12) and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold.
When in doubt , rush back to let the Bronze age cave dwellers do your thinking for you. Although I must say, that quote doesn't even come up to the level of thought.


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60 seconds with James Sym: Can a recovery in European earnings power further stock gains?
60 seconds with James Sym: Can a recovery in European earnings power further stock gains?
A time to pause after a strong performance from European equities
European equities have had a great run over the last three years, ever since the European Central bank President Mario Draghi said he would do "whatever it takes" to save the euro and help maintain the union, so now we need to take stock.
A reappraisal of valuations
Equities are no longer so cheap in Europe.
They started off cheap as we came out of the credit crisis, but European stocks have now re-rated to a more normal level of valuation, or perhaps even above historic levels of valuation based on companies' profits.
Earnings upgrades on the horizon
The good news is we are about to start getting earnings upgrades.
That means that companies are going to start making more profit over the next two-to-three years than they have done in the previous few years, which is very powerful because for five years we have seen earnings downgrades in Europe.
Rewards on offer for patient investors
A big shift is needed in peoples' portfolios. There are a lot of investors who have an underweight exposure to Europe and I think that could change quite significantly.
After a very strong start to 2015 I would say we have had most of the returns for the year, but if you are prepared to take a two or three year view I would say remain constructive.
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