What's it good for?

If evolution can create it, so can man. There is and will be intelligent design. It's only a matter of time. We are in the midst of the last great battle of reason over evolution -- why is this happening now? Because evolution developed the first great singularity [1] about 300 thousand years ago. And it happened to our ancestors and they learned to talk somehow, really talk. Talking lets you pass information between generations at an exponentially faster speed than evolution does. Evolution is slow. We evolved complex language which let us talk about abstract concepts very quickly, in evolutionary terms. This happened a long time ago in human terms (in the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms.) This ability to know thyself and talk about it is the genesis of the tree of knowledge story. Not only did humans name all the animals, they could now talk about and reason about what an animal would do. [2] Darwinian evolution signed its own death warrant that day. In evolutionary time ...

Growing up in the Milky Way Galaxy (with apologies to Timothy Ferris) Watching the stars was the way Humanity figured out where it was in the cosmos. You can't tell if you don't look Science is an ever growing body of knowledge that continues to expand exponentially. This points to a singularity sometime in the near future. We've built machines that can imitate speech (passing the Turing test[A] soon.) And it all started with a singularity in the past where Humanity learned to speak. When did science start? Did it start in pre-history? Before people could write? Does science include the ability to make stone tools and slowly improve them so they are easier to use and more efficient? Of course. Science is the observation of objective reality and the ability to construct models with reproducible predictions. Take two rocks of a certain type and shape and bang them together this way and you get a hand axe. It’s magic! Not a miracle but real magic. An incantation with the right...