Lisa Nguyen từ Koptsevo, Belgorodskaya oblast', Russia

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12/22/2024

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Lisa Nguyen Sách lại (10)

2019-05-27 20:31

Người Hoang - Phần 2: Tan Đàn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jacob Grey

I follow the evolution / ID culture war pretty closely, but it occurred to me a while back that I had very little actual understanding of the science behind evolution. After reading Coyne’s book, I realize that I had more than I knew I did, but that I was missing a lot. Why Evolution is True demonstrates with strong clarity why evolution has proven itself to scientists as broadly and throughly as gravity. Unlike Miller’s Only a Theory, which focuses specifically on creationist arguments and why they’re bogus, Coyne explores evolution from the perspective of “how has this convinced us,” and he does so thoroughly. A few fun facts and good quotes: * Evolution depends on six concepts: “evolution, gradualism, speciation, common ancestry, natural selection, and nonselective mechanisms of evolutionary change.” Coyne explains each. * Whales descended from land animals. Their closest living relative is the hippo. They have hip and leg bones and occasionally one will be born with a leg. * The number of spots on the male peacock helps determine how sexy he is to the female peacock. One theory about this is that evolution to appreciate a certain color for unrelated reasons leads to sexual selection. Coyne writes “Suppose, for example, that members of a species had evolved a visual preference for red color because that preference helped them locate ripe fruits and berries. If a mutant male appeared with a patch of red on his breast, he might be preferred by females simply because of this preexisting preference.” (167) In other words, the females would select males because they look tasty. * The lineage of ape to human evolution is astonishingly well defined. The “hobbit” species, Homo floresiensis, an offshoot protected from worldwide species evolution by geographic barriers, lived as recently as 18,000 years ago. * The best argument against intelligent design is the bad design we find throughout complex life forms. By contrast, if we follow clues to explain development of one trait through adaptation from another, most of these bad designs make sense. One extended quote I really like. [Creationists argue:] that all the perceived evils of evolution come from two worldviews that are part of science: naturalism and materialism. Naturalism is the view that the only way to understand our universe is through the scientific method. Materialism is the idea that the only reality is the physical matter of the universe, and that everything else, including thoughts, will, and emotions, comes from physical laws acting on matter. The message of evolution, and all of science, is one of naturalistic materialism. Darwinism tells us that, like all species, human beings arose from the working of blind, purposeless forces over eons of time. As far as we can determine, the same forces that gave rise to ferns, mushrooms, lizards, and squirrels also produced us. Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible– though very unlikely—that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are never needed: we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism. Furthermore, supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that’s the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.

2019-05-27 21:31

Thắc Mắc Về Vi Khuẩn - Ai Khiến Tớ Hắt Xì? Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Buke Buke

This is a twist on the tale of sleeping beauty to put it mildly. Its been classified as erotica or bsdm but for me it was horror erotica. There is a fine line between bsdm and abuse and the line is consent. If you take away the fantasy part of this novel with the queen and princes and castles and such and just look at the relationship between beauty and her prince you get an insite into an abusive relationship. Beauty doesn't consent to be treated this way, she only wants to please her prince. She comes to believe that his displeasure and the spankings and beating that she gets is somehow deserves. She believes that she deserves to be made to eat off the floor and to be displayed as an object. She comes to think if she can only do this or that right then he won't strike her. When in reality its not her fault. He only wants to be seen as powerful. The sad reality is women are abused by those they love everyday and more often than not they do feel this way. There are also scenes of rape in the book where Prince Alexi is being held in the kitchens. Rape is by definition not consentual and what happens to hem there is horrible. I never thought of sex as horror before I read this book but it certainly goes there. For all its horror this book has a sense of fantasy or fairy tale as things are conveniently unrealistic. There is no break for menstral cycles, nobody gets pregnant, and most of the slaves never eat. If I had as much sex as these people I would be hungry but the slaves rarely eat and never seem to be hungry. There's no description of the weather either. It never rains or is cold, even tho they are naked they don't notice the temperature. I guess thats the fairy tale side of the story.

Người đọc Lisa Nguyen từ Koptsevo, Belgorodskaya oblast', Russia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.