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Post by EricOlivares on Mar 24, 2015 8:26:39 GMT
Video Test #4 0922
1. have you ever had a paranormal experience? or, do you know of someone who claims to have had one? how would you explain it rationally? does the Candian effect apply?
to answer this question I never had a paranormal experience and do I know someone that has claimed to have a paranormal experience yes I do my dad said had he has had one when he was younger. him and some of his friends were at his house and they decided to tryout the Ouija board so they waited to night time and turned off all the lights in the house and lit some candles then they proceeded to ask the Ouija board a question they all put their hands on the monocle and asked "is the devil real" then my dad swears that the monocle started to shake then he and his friends removed their hands from the monocle and is few off the table. now do I believe the story my dad told? no I don't. do I believe there is a logic explanation? yes I believe there is and the logical way I would explain this event is when they started playing with the Ouija board most likely one of his friends was pretty scared about playing with this board and was probably shaking and didn't even know it and that's why the monocle started shaking and scared everybody that was touching the monocle and in there haste to remove their hands from it who wouldn't say that one accidently flicked the monocle off the boring and that person would not recall doing this because he was so scared. does the Candian effect apply to this certain event I think it does.
2. think of your own astrological sign and find a horoscope that pertains to you. does it fit? how would a critical thinking explain it?
I found out that my astrological sign is Gemini and when I looked up my horoscope for today it said this "Educational or spiritual growth on your part is likely to attract new friends who could become close companions. There could even be a new romantic partner in the bunch. This comes from the expansion of your mind, Gemini. The new people should share your interests and turn into companions on your quest for enlightenment. Accept their friendship and move ahead. Don't look back - you can't go back" now does this fit I think it kind of does when I think about it I have met new friends when I was in school expanding my education but none of them turned into my close companions and none of them were possible romantic partner for me but I have lost contact with certain friends but I don't look back and I move on. I would explain it with critical thinking by looking at the horoscope and examining the question and by looking at the question its applies to a lot of people. people do make new friends later in life most of them in school and also new romantic partners and it is natural for people to lose contact with friends you made in high school and when someone was younger because you either out grow them or you go your separate ways.
3. if an intelligent alien did indeed visit this planet and came over to your house, what do you think he would find most odd about human behavior?
if an intelligent alien came to earth and visited my house I think the alien would find are obsession with us watching television for hours are most odd behavior because if the alien visited any house on the planet the alien would see families watch TV for hours and watch these certain television shows that make no sense and could sit in one spot and do nothing else and they would wonder why someone watch this box that projected images instead of doing something productive to help better ourselves or other people and they would ask the question how could the people of earth spend most of their lives watching this idiot box?
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Post by sochoa15 on Mar 24, 2015 21:25:17 GMT
Film Test -4
Code: 0922
1. Have you ever had a paranormal experience? Or, do you know of someone who claims to have had one? How would you explain it rationally? Does the Chadian Effect apply?
My mom once to me of a paranormal experience she had when she was young. During that time she lived with my grandparents, she start noticed something weird about the new house that my grandpa bought. For example, every time around midnight she was herring horrible voice of a woman crying in the basement. For some reason no one listen that same as her, she told me too that when she was around seven years old, she was able to see people that no one else could see. My grandma took her to the church because those things were good things. So that’s why now all my family are catholic since generations. The way how would I explain it rationally could be, that sometimes kids can be able to see more things than old people, the reason is because they pay attention of any details around them.
2. Think of your own astrological sign and find a horoscope that pertains to you. Does it fit? How would a critical thinking explain it?
My astrological sign is Aquarius is funny because for some reason years before do not believe in this, till I pay attention how this sign it was describe me exactly the same way I’m. The zodiac chart it is often symbolized by a water bearer or a water pitcher. Members born under the sign are extremely vulnerable and sensitive. You may find them being surrounded by many but in reality they rarely have close friends and acquaintances. The universality of their sign makes them public people. They are often associated with many clubs, organizations and forums and like intellectual discussions. Aquarians are good communicators as long as you stay within their mental realm. They enjoy the company of likeminded people. Aquarians tend to attach great importance to their friends and love to stay surrounded by them. How would I critical thinking explain this, well to say that true is like a magic of the universe which everything about us, depend how the human believe or not.
3. If an intelligent alien did indeed visit this planet and came over to your house, what do you think he would find most odd about human behavior?
If an intelligent alien did indeed visit this planet and come over to my house, the alien will surprise it that way how human are, for example now days all the people have their phones, internet and games, we do not care about talking with our own families. We just decide to waste our time in stupid things. Probably, he will laugh of us the way how human behavior are.
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Post by tessvillegas on Mar 25, 2015 8:05:29 GMT
Exam 4:0922
1. To be honest I've never had a paranormal experience nor do I know someone who has had any. I don't really pay attention to the things around me if I know its going to freak me out. When I'm home I usually have all the lights on and I would say I stay away from a lot of things I know "feel" or seem creepy to me.
2. A lot of times when reading my horescope I can really relate to what its saying and sometimes it doesn't I think that is a perfect example of how astrology is BS. A critical thinker might explain that in horescopes a lot of what it says is so general and can pertain to anyone and sometimes they can put something that doesn't even relate to you at all.
3. I'm not really sure what the alien finds "normal" and "no normal" so I couldn't be too sure, but I think the thing they would find to be most odd about human behavior is that we are all different in our own way, to me when I think about aliens I think of them as being all the same and all together so for them to see so many differ behaviors would be weird.
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Post by Shalin "BEAR" on Mar 25, 2015 8:46:01 GMT
Critical thinking #4 sites.google.com/site/shalinbeargunasekera/home 1.Ive never really had any paranormal experiences, maybe like spiritual experiences. when i was very little i went to catholic all boys school in sri lanka. after school you can usually catch all the kids running to buses to get home. this day like any other day would take the life of one my closest friends ( i wasnt really old enough to understand death yet, as i am around 7 years old. ive never even been to a funeral either). as me and my friend were running past couple of moving busses in the busy inner city of colombo, right after we got out. my friend running ahead me, i was chasing him to get on our bus. but in a mater of second i felt my body stop at a hard wall i look up to see a large bus already running over my toes( which surprisingly didnt hurt) as i looked to my right my friend lied unconsciously on the floor ( that literally was the last image i had in my head) as i was grabbed by a teacher standing close by that witnessed everything they covered my eyes as they carried me away, taking my shoes off to see if i was hurt. i really couldnt speak i was just frozen in time, i felt like that bus took away part of me when i hit it. that night as i was going to bed i felt uneasy, my parents acted like nothing happened. i was so confused, and then late at night i looked out my window my friends decapitated body floated in my window with three other unknown creatures as any child would i hid under my sheets for as long as i could and rushed into my parents room for the rest of the night. Now for the weird part, i never had a friend that died from a bus hitting them and i really did have that dream. what the fudge was going on? 2. When it comes to horoscopes my mom hold the record for reading my future, or like i call it my fortune (because its fortune cookie unless it really happens to me). when i look at my horoscope my self on the internet i surprisingly get really close to how i really i am . but i feel its a giant hoax just like how ur internet knows exactly what u want, how does it know ! how ! stop following me internet! i really dont believe in astrological signs , except i feel like every one chooses their own fate; we just interpret it in a different way. I really hope my astrological sign arent really coming true but to my knowledge i literally am on a rail track with my astrological signs. im going to school for engineering (mechanical engineering ) but my astrological signs say engineering ( scary ) also it says i will be very rich in the future (hold on ladies ) but i will also die at a young age ( i hope your sad about that...gold diggers !gold i say ).i really hope this isnt true cuz i do want to walk my children down the isle and maybe be there to see their children. 3.i think they would find it odd that i wasn't eating my food from my butt instead of my mouth hahaha jk. i think if a alien came down the first question like any normal sensible human would ask is. why do you follow celebrities, why pay attention to lives that doesn't even matter. their life doesnt affect you in the slightest, not even partially. hell i might be alien and im wondering. they would be like why dont u follow the people that affect your life like politicians and scumbags that try to steal money from hardworking individuals. no harm intended but stop making clowns famous for a big butt and support your local government to suite your way of life. If we are intelligent might as well act like it when they show up. |
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Post by brandonterpstra on Mar 25, 2015 20:02:05 GMT
Test Week #5
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
My neruoethical argument is against vegetarianism. The argument for vegetarianism is a fallacy. The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism stems from pity for animals mistreatments and eventual fate by slaughter because of the human understanding that these animals have the ability to feel and understand pain such as we do. Many doctoral studies for and against vegertarianism have been done, with both showing for and against the impact on the human body, many later studies have shown the ill effects of not consuming meat for the natural nutrients, fats, proteins, and vitamins that meat has over a strict vegetable diet. I do not agree with it from my own standpoint, because I am very active in weight lifting and my body cries out for the need for my muscles to be fed in order to grow and vegetables abosulutely cannot provide me with the proteins and nutrients in order to reach my full potential. My neurological belief and understanding of how meat helps my body and mind feel healthy and happy supersedes that of a potentially crying animal.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture is the belief that we should exaust all physical explanations first before succombing to prematuraley jump ship and wonder and opt for supermundane explanations. If something is genuiley beyond the grasp of science the majority will come to believe that there is an outside power, possibly a miracle. The remainder conjuncture simply states that we exaust all the means of figuring out and finding out the why about something and if there is anything left over, that is the remainder.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
Sharing a connection between a human and rice for example would flare most people due to this discovery at first glance. Religious or not, this fact is pretty special and pretty surprising. There are over 70,000 genes in rice, and only 25,000 in humans. The fact that we share a 1/3 of the genes rice does is nuts. This information can help lead humanity down a path of understand that everything on this Earth, Solar System, Galaxy, Cluster to the Supercluster are all made up of the same material. This information, thought it will not, should have a significant impact about our origin as man kind.
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Post by chris132 on Mar 25, 2015 22:16:11 GMT
EXAM 5
Exam code: 97654
1). The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism asks the question if eating animals is needed to survive or if it’s possible to eat things that don’t have a brain that can’t feel pain. I think it’s possible for us to eat things that don’t have to be killed or that are caused pain. It’s very convenient for people to eat meat and meat products especially when many people are raised eating meat. It’s very difficult to cut meat from one’s diet and can make it more effort on one’s part to go out of their way to find nutrients that are easily found in meat and animal product. Many people will say that it doesn’t matter if we eat meat because animals are just animals. I think that many people would think twice at the very least when they consider what it would be like if we were the animals to be eaten by another species.
2). The Remainder Conjecture is a theory which explains that we exhaust any and all physical explanations first before succumbing to what Paul Ku called “the transcendental temptation” where we prematurely jump ship and opt for super mundane explanations for erstwhile mundane events. Sometimes when science can’t explain a phenomena or something bizarre, many people will think that it’s the divine work of a higher power. An example of this is when there’s no scientific explanation as to why someone who has been legally dead for several minutes is able to come back alive and when they say they saw a light.
3). There is a genetic connection between humans a rice considering rice contains 25% of our genetic make. I think that knowing this and how we as humans are related to so many things in the world should help us learn about humanity and everything else. It should help us see that everything is related to one another and that we should all be connected with one another. I think this information should help humans to change their ways of being selfish and to expand their minds to being more accepting and understanding of not just other people and their beliefs and ideas, but also everything that surrounds us like the forests, oceans, animals, and everything inside and outside our solar system as well.
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Post by shantel on Mar 26, 2015 21:58:18 GMT
1. The neuroethical argument for veganism/vegetarianism is that animals have central nervous systems just as humans do. These animals feel pain just like us which poses the question of what level of intelligence or pain of an animal is low enough for us to consume guilt free. I agree with this argument, the animals can feel emotions, pain, and many other things they are faced with while being raised for slaughter. Humans have a choice over what we decide to consume, and consuming animals is not necessary for survival. As I understand plants do in fact have pain receptors, but they still lack a central nervous system. Their pain is substantially less than that of an animal that is “humanely” slaughtered.
2. The remainder conjecture puts you in the perspective to try and find a physical explanation for something before jumping to conclusions. For instance when someone you know is being mean, moody, or otherwise unpleasant, the remainder conjecture says to look for a scientific or physical explanation before attributing the behavior to the devil. Often time’s people are afraid to look for physical evidence in fear what they believed will not be factual. When someone has a near death experience they will often claim to have seen Jesus or whatever religious figure they believe in. But through the remainder conjecture we can explain this with a physical explanation. They could have been projecting what they believe in a time of extreme duress which made them believe it was Jesus himself saving them from the great beyond.
3. As humans we have a tendency to think we are smarter and better than other species. In this regard we are quite “speciest” as a whole. Knowing that we have a genetic connection to wild rice should in fact humble us, and cause us to see that we are not as different and above every species. I recognize that we are on top but the other species are not nearly as far from us as we’d like to imagine. Our worldview with this new information could potentially help expand our circle of compassion. It could influence the way we treat all living things in general. I will even go as far as to say that plants would be treated a lot better by the human species if we knew this particular information.
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Post by jamesriii on Mar 27, 2015 2:37:37 GMT
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for veganism is stating that we as humans shouldn't anything with a face and a central nervous system. Humans along with a few other creatures on this earth are omnivores, which mean they achieve nutrients from a multitude of sources. I disagree with the socially norm that has been going on for centuries that states humans eat meat to survive. I personally think humans eat meat because it makes them feel superior to the other species on this earth hence the saying “eat or be eaten.” If humans made a choice to stop eating meat we has a race would survive.
2.What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture is a look into what science cannot explain. This video shows a small path into looking into unnaturally events that we cannot explain.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
If there was a genetic connection between us and grain of rice, I don’t see the rest of the world changing much. A few people would feel the need to humble themselves but the world isn't ready for that kind of awakening.
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Post by jvillegasct15 on Mar 28, 2015 0:36:07 GMT
Code: 97654
1. “Neuroethical Argument for Vegetarianism”
Neuroethical argument for vegetarianism is the belief that animals have central nervous system and that they feel the exact same pain and suffering while being slaughtered. I do agree the argument for vegetarianism, because animals do have central nervous system and they do feel pain, but that does not necessarily mean people will stop eating animals. I believe that people eat animals even though they know they suffer and being tortured because it is a natural way of eating and gaining proteins and all living things have their niche and being cooked and eaten is one of their purpose. Though people are sympathetic about their sufferings, not seeing them being tortured and slaughtered justifies it that it is okay to eat animal, or eat faces.
2. “Remainder Conjecture”
Remainder conjecture is that belief that everything science can be proved but meanwhile there is no logical or scientific way to resolve a predicament. The way this work is think of puzzling problem and all the possible logical, scientific way of solving this does not fix the problem and we are remain with nothing but unsolved problem that remain thing we do is the remainder conjecture. One example might be the belief of ghost or the UFOs. There are plenty of explanation or possible scientific way to solve this, but there is no definite explanation to this controversy.
3. “Grain of wild Rice”
It is learned that humans and grain of wild rice are somehow genetically connected from the beginning of our ancestors. This information changes how we see things and how we react to things. The way we will start to look at things is that we are all connected somehow which will lead us to believe that all things work the same exact way. We all grow and we all have purpose in this world.
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Post by asdfjaiilee on Mar 28, 2015 22:24:36 GMT
Phil 8
Film Test 5
Code: 97654
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism argues that since animals and other organisms that have a central nervous system have the capacity to feel pain, they should not be killed and eaten. As humans, we understand pain and can empathize pain with other beings, so the issue of vegetarianism becomes one of personal choice, not because of necessity, but because of one's morals. By widening our circle of compassion for animals and choosing not to eat meat, we create a change one person at a time for a more conscious and compassionate being. I believe that the neuroethical argument is one that many people don't tend to think about when they choose to eat just because eating meat has become such a socially-accepted thing. I agree with the notion and I believe that if people learned to think critically about where their food comes from, more people would make the choice to leave meat off their dinner plate.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture states that before we choose to attribute extraordinary or transcendental explanations for seemingly mundane events, we must first try to explain it scientifically through what we know in physics, chemistry, and biology. Anything that cannot be fully deciphered by the tools of scientific prowess will invariably end up as a "remainder". This way of thinking is helpful because it makes it hard for us to be tricked by something that may seem out-of-this-world. If science can break it down, then the phenomenon has an explanation. If not, we have to accept it as currently beyond our scientific limits. For example, the idea of spiritual encounters within one's own inner consciousness can be broken down into projections of one's own mind rather than visits from distant entities.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
The genetic connection between humans and wild rice, or any other organism for that matter just means that we share a common heritage from billions of years ago. It shows that although we branched out from the same ancestor along with all other plants and animals, we still share parts of our gene composition with them. With this in mind, it becomes a greater question how people still fail to show compassion for all other beings, as well as how people kill and wage wars against each other for petty reasons.
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Post by asdfjaiilee on Mar 28, 2015 22:34:04 GMT
@chris132
I agree with your notion that eating meat has become very convenient just because many cultures have meat as a staple part of their diet. Many individuals grow up in families where meat is served as part of a traditional family meal. I even further agree with your notion that cutting meat out of one's diet is difficult, especially if you grew up accustomed to eating meat. I have been having a similar issue trying to cut out as much carbohydrates from my diet as well and trying to find good sources of energy as replacements is a lot more effort than opting for the most convenient choice.
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Post by Phillip Navarro on Mar 29, 2015 4:46:37 GMT
Test 4 0922
1. When I was living at my parent’s house my dad told me a story about a little girl who had died in their house before they owned it. My parents have a pool and when they first bought the house the pool had a slide. We took down the slide because it was really old and falling apart. My dad told me that the previous owner told my dad that a little girl fell off the slide and hit her head and the ground. A few days later she passed away. Now this happened years ago. When my dad had bought the house I was working at a shoe store and I had the late shift so I would get home really late. One night I was watching tv and my dog was asleep. I heard a soft voice calling from the hallway my dog that was sleeping next to me woke up and stood in front of the all way. No one was home that night it was really scary. My dad had a similar experience he had heard some say “Hey Dad!” which he replied “yes!” then he realized that no one was home. Now I have always been a fan of the paranormal I even set up video cameras so I purposely try to catch something or try to catch a voice or ghost. I believe the chandian effect does apply, because I believe in ghost, and sometimes when I stare down the hall at my parents’ house my mind creates an illusion that a small black figure is standing at the end. But is it real?? I couldn’t tell you.
2. I’m a Leo and my horoscope says that I’m full of energy and that I love to find new challenges and new experience. I don’t believe in horoscope’s yes I do like to be active, I do like challenge’s; and I’m always looking for new experiences. I believe that most people are the same way, all these things that my horoscope said I feel like it applies to a lot of people in the world. The same rules that apply when you go see a fortune teller also apply on horoscopes. Horoscopes tell you something positive something universal that will make someone feel good about themselves and something that they can relate too.
3. I think they would find it odd that we have cats and dogs as pets. Maybe they would find it odd that I watch tv and play xbox. Not sure how aliens live but im sure they don’t go out to the market and buy some steak or chicken to BBQ. I think they would find it odd how humans just go as they please, go to work, going to the gym, eating at restaurants.
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Post by Julian Rodriguez on Mar 29, 2015 23:03:57 GMT
Julian Rodriguez
Critical Thinking
Film Exam 5: 97654
3/29/15
1.) The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism describes vegetarianism as being the will to go beyond self interest and live without eating meat in order to prevent creatures who are capable of feeling pain from experiencing unnecessary suffering. This argument emphasizes the fact that we are both able to live without eating meat products and still be healthy, as well as are able to make the conscious, ethical decision to do so--evidence for our present caliber of civility and stage in humanity. The underlying tone of this argument echoes the "golden rule," to treat others as you would want to be treated, arguing that if there were another species of extraterrestrial life that could kill and eat us, understanding that we are intelligent and capable of feeling pain, we would plead for them to refrain from doing so. In this sense, the argument is also a moral challenge that advertently causes us to expand our circle of empathy as discussed in lecture, as well as ascend us to a higher, more conscious and considerate stage of humanity. My interpretation of the neuroethical argument also creates the impulse for me to call it the "live and let live" principle, since, at its core, vegetarianism would allow us to do just that.
2.) The Remainder Conjecture exposes the occurrence of people's jump to supernatural, spiritual, or otherwise non-physical explanations for incidents or events that is caused by our inability to either completely or partially understand them. The conjecture insists that we first try to prove or explain these events to the best of our physical and intellectual abilities before, if at all, we are to consider anything that transcends our rational understanding. If, in the end, we find there is no explanation within our rational realm, we are then left with something that has been exhausted to being outside our understand--thus the name "Remainder" Conjecture. An example of this are ghosts. Since we cannot physically prove or explain the phenomena of ghosts, we dub it "supernatural," or, beyond our understanding.
3.) The fact that a human being shares so much genetic similarity with a grain of rice illustrates exactly how similar, united, and connected all living organisms are. Both metaphorically and quite physically, really, life is water. In the sheer essence that something is alive, it is a drop of the same water that makes up the entire ocean of all living things. Life, like water, then, is capable of being contained in physical vessels of different shapes and sizes: trees, flowers, strawberries, dogs, birds, flies, moss, tigers, rice, humans... all drops in a collective ocean of consciousness. Being alive and physically manifested is the time when the drops of water are suspended, falling down the waterfall, leaving one body of water to another, until the drops return and are collected again.
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Post by johnesquivel on Mar 29, 2015 23:18:15 GMT
John Esquivel
3/29/2015
97654
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The Neuroethical argument explains that animals have a central nervous system that understand pain and suffering, including human beings; hence, we should not eat such species. The concept is not religious or pertaining to the existence of a soul. It is simply a "scientific analysis" f the "material complexity to feel pain." One example given in the movie is a trans-human event where they eat human beings just as we would eat cows. Since they are more evolved than us, it is not a moral issue for them. I am strictly opposed to vegetarianism because I side with the "dog eat dog" theory of evolution. While we eat subspecies, we weed out the bad ones and control aspects of the environment, like overpopulation. For example, the fox is a necessary species to the biodiversity of land because it eats rabbits and small species that populate in exponential force. I also argue that eating species like chicken or cow nourishes with necessary nutrients required to survive and live longer. One time, I noticed my vegetarian brother-in-law eat a meat burger which resulted with a rapid rush of energy to his body. I did not have the same experience since I am an avid carnivore. I believe that the human species is built to eat meat, evolutionary wise. It gives us the evolutionary strength to survive and succeed.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture deals with applying scientific scrutiny and analysis to concepts of spiritual transcendence experience before ruling it an "epistemology cul de sac." So basically, we should use scientific critical thinking in trying to explain something that we consider a "spiritual phenomena." Our understanding of ghost, for example, should be investigated with the remainder conjecture. This means that we must place the experience next to the application of "biology, physics, and chemistry" before we can rule it a "transcendent experience." The ghost might have been a result of the neurological activity the brain produces.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
The genetic connection between human and rice points out that all species are interconnected because of shared ancestry. Yeast in human beings is a connection with rice. If we scientifically study ourselves and other beings, like plants and animals, we broaden our understanding of all life. Discovery and scientific advancement in the human species can help other animals and species evolve and vice-versa.
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Post by vincentgalvan on Mar 29, 2015 23:29:42 GMT
Film Test 5
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism is the idea that ethically we should not eat other animals because they have a nervous system similar to ours, and therefore they are intelligent and can feel pain. I agree with it since their nervous system has been scientifically studied and it has been determined that they can indeed suffer, and therefore animals deserve to have our compassion extended to them. Henceforth, we should not murder and eat them, as we can somewhat identify with them, being that they possess a similar intellectual level and pain sensitivity. Animals have a right to life just as much as we do.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture, as I understand it, states that when something extraordinary occurs, we should first try to explain it through all logical means before assuming that it is due to something supernatural or otherwise. If it cannot be reasonably explained after much effort, then it is a remainder. For example, there are many natural wonders around the world that science can’t reasonably explain, and therefore many attribute them to a higher power.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
This connection should influence or impact our worldview by helping us realize that we are connected to everything around us and across the globe. One of the points this emphasizes is that we should be respectful of our environment, natural resources, and fellow animals. Another thing this points out is that we should be accepting of all other humans, both ethnically and culturally, because we all share a common genotype and ancestors.
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