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Enigma code

Published on: Author: regmorrison

Morality, Free will, Culture, Religion and Sexuality (a few unmentionable facts) our lives are essentially fiction based. We read fiction novels and prefer to watch fictional dramas on stage and screen; we readily believe advertising and political propaganda, and most people place implicit faith in some form of religious, economic or political creed. So culture… Continue reading →

The Origin of Faith

Published on: Author: regmorrison

The source of all human behaviour lies in our genes. It is our genetic material that induces us to laugh, cry, sing, love, hate and fight. Here too, is the birthplace of belief—in witchcraft, astrology, economics and aliens; in Tarot cards and tea-leaves; in gods, angels and devils; in luck, voodoo, and things that go… Continue reading →

‘Marriage Equality’ … Jumping to a Conclusion?

Published on: Author: regmorrison

How strange it is that the topics of ‘same-sex marriage’ and ‘marriage equality’ are invariably presented as a moral issues, and yet the diagnostic terms ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ are essentially biological and have absolutely nothing to do with culture, morality or religious belief. More important still, these two biological terms are defined by gene-directed behaviours… Continue reading →

Evolution’s Gamblers – diagnostic profile

Published on: Author: regmorrison

FAMILY NAME: …… Hominidae AGE: ……………….. about 2.5 million years old PROFESSION: …… gambling MAIN BET: ………… that they have ‘dual existence’ ODDS AGAINST: …. 20 million to one (minimum). When modern members of this family bet on racehorses they tend to recoil from bets that involve odds that are much greater than 50 to… Continue reading →

The Population Debate

Published on: Author: regmorrison

Those who advocate population growth tend to be politicians, economists, systems analysts and professors of business administration. Their main opponents tend to be biologists, earth scientists, and conservationists who champion a wide range of environmentally based counter arguments. The more extreme of these warn that population reduction is essential if we are to avoid the… Continue reading →

HYDROGEN: Life’s Maker and Breaker

Published on: Author: regmorrison

The Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky proposed life as a dynamic extension of the Earth’s crust and a by-product of the chaotic gradient that mediates between the energy-rich body of the planet and the void of  galactic space. Since hydrogen is the basic energy courier of the cosmos, this proposition supports the contention that life too,… Continue reading →

Free will? … It’s a genetic Illusion.

Published on: Author: regmorrison

Human behaviour is widely believed to be founded on conscious rational thought, an asset that allows us to choose and  modify our behaviour on a continual basis. It’s a unique characteristic that supposedly separates our species from all other animals.  Yet if you switch off the language sound track and observe human behaviour in total silence, it’s… Continue reading →

The Diary of ‘YOU’ – “Four billion years of human evolution”

Published on: Author: regmorrison

As a by-product of genetic evolution, the birth of our species is inextricably linked to the evolution of the planets biosphere and its dazzling biota. The Diary of You unfolds this sequence of biological mile-stones as a uniquely personal narrative. The 4.6 billion-year life of the planet has also been matched here against a one-year… Continue reading →

Plague Species – The Spirit in the Gene

Published on: Author: regmorrison

“Our timebomb is mysticism. Its delivery system is language. And its hiding place? The unfathomable coils of our DNA.” (The Spirit in the Gene, 1999) With the aid of photographs, diagrams and graphs Reg Morrison summarises the massive impact that humans have had on our planet and explores the evolutionary and genetic origins of the behaviour… Continue reading →