/sci/ - Science & Math

If big animals like whales have bigger brains than us, why are we smarter?

Is it because their brain power is taken up powering bigger body systems?

If someone wearing latex gloves uses my computer and then I use it an hour later and I'm allergic to latex, can I get a reaction from it?

Anyone with an ounce of imagination can, given any set of data whatsoever,construct a cosmology compatible with that data which also includes God. (Or one which doesn't.) IMHO, anyone who finds themself having to invent ever more baroque explanations solely in order to retain either axiom might benefit from stopping and asking themselves if there's any conceivable reason -- other than divine encouragement -- why they might feel compelled to do this, and whether the most honest response to discovering that the answer is "yes" is to dream up an even more complicated universe in which all such reasons can be safely ignored.