No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?