Some think of humans as the "scientific species." But also as failures, because, well, humans mostly do just fail when it comes to thinking and acting scientifically.
It's a little odd, isn't it, that we'd be so bad at doing the thing we were built for?
So, maybe we weren't built for it after all. Because whatever we're really built for, we should probably be pretty good at it.
Actually, when you think about it, it doesn't really make sense that we would be scientifically-oriented. Science has only really been around for a few hundred years. If you could look at humans from 10,000 years ago, they wouldn't be trying to be scientists and... (read 2006 more words →)