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Old 01-17-2007, 06:58 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Actually, I think religion and science are evolutionary drivers of each other!
Interesting point. I think that you may be interested in Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene", which was the origin of the memetic theory. I haven't read it myself, and there have been a number of criticisms of his theory (non well-founded enough for me to pay much attention), and there are alternate theories, but!

The whole point of the meme is that ideas are as evolutionarily driven as genes. You might like.
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