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Profs & Pints: Evolution, Belief, Gods and Ghosts.
The Bier Baron Tavern
Washington, DC
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Profs & Pints: Evolution, Belief, Gods and Ghosts.
Profs and Pints presents: Evolution, Belief, Gods and Ghosts a biology-based look at how humans have long made sense of their worlds, with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology.

Its only natural for humans to ask Why? and then come up with answers. Ask young children why rivers exist, and they might tell us so that we can have water to drink. On their own theyll draw the sun with a smiling facedepicting it not as an inanimate object, but as a purposeful being with a day job.

Other animals share some of our moral traits, such as altruism. But, based on information from diverse scientific fields, Rui Diogo, an evolutionary biologist, has concluded that our tendency to seek purpose in life probably emerged sometime back in our evolution after we split from chimpanzees. Our awareness of the inevitability and randomness of both life and death led us to construct stories that gave meaning to the results of chaos. Later subsets of such narratives include our beliefs in gods, which spawned institutional religion, as well as beliefs in ghosts and conspiracy theories.

Importantly, while our tendency to wonder about lifes cosmic purpose is often considered one of humanitys most noble features, Professor Diogo argues that this trait is profoundly linked with some of the darker developments in human history, including witch-hunting, misogyny, animal abuse, colonialism, racism, eugenics, terrorism, and the majority of wars. In order to prevent their repetition, we must move on to an understanding of life that is more rational and empirical. We must reframe our questions, following the motto don't ask why, ask how. Our quest for understanding of earthquakes, rainbows, birth defects, and aspects of our bodiesanything not directly related to purposeful choices made by living organismsshould be framed as a how question: How did this thing occur or evolve? Once we grasp that there is no ultimate purpose or master plan for the existence of inanimate objects or biological organisms, why questions lose importance.

The talk will integrate research and fascinating case studies from diverse scientific fields to address deep and broad questions. It will be of interest to people interested in biology, anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religions, and psychology, sociology, and other fields, as well as to all those curious about their daily inner lives.

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The Bier Baron Tavern (Ver)
1523 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037
United States
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Educación > Clases
Otra > Política
Otra > Espiritual

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