Chimpanzee vs. Human child learning (1/2) The Empathic Civilisation. Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker. Atheism. Is the Universe Fine Tuned for Life? Why Common Design Common Designer = FAIL. The God Helmet - from "Through the Wormhole" Miller–Urey experiment. The Miller–Urey experiment[1] (or Miller experiment)[2] was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. The experiment confirmed Alexander Oparin's and J.
B. S. Haldane's hypothesis that putative conditions on the primitive Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized more complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, it was conducted in 1952[3] by Stanley Miller, with assistance from Harold Urey, at the University of Chicago and later the University of California, San Diego and published the following year.[4][5][6] After Miller's death in 2007, scientists examining sealed vials preserved from the original experiments were able to show that there were actually well over 20 different amino acids produced in Miller's original experiments. Experiment[edit] Other experiments[edit] Argumentum ad populum. "Ad populum" redirects here. For the Catholic liturgical term, see Versus populum. In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition is true because many or most people believe it: "If many believe so, it is so.
" This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to democracy, appeal to popularity, argument by consensus, consensus fallacy, authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy (also known as a vox populi),[2] and in Latin as argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans"). It is also the basis of a number of social phenomena, including communal reinforcement and the bandwagon effect. The Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger" concerns the same idea. Examples[edit] Explanation[edit] Evidence[edit] Exceptions[edit] Social convention[edit] Language[edit] More Poverty = More Religion. Religion has a surprisingly high correlation with poverty, according to a Gallup survey conducted in more than 100 countries. The more poverty a nation has, the higher the “religiosity” in that nation.
In general, richer countries are less religious than poorer ones. The biggest exception? The United States, which has the highest religiosity relative to its wealth on the planet. Religion & Poverty graphic via NYT Hat tip Flowing Data> Sources: Religious Outlier CHARLES M. Religiosity Highest in World’s Poorest Nations United States is among the rich countries that buck the trend Steve Crabtree Gallup, August 31, 2010 Category: Digital Media, Psychology, UnScience.