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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  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. |
There are plenty of legitmate scientific and other criticisms of Dawkins, in my opinion he is just as much a fanatic as he claims fundamentalists are.
"Oxford theologian Alister McGrath, author of Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, has accused
Dawkins of being ignorant of Christian theology and mischaracterising religious people in general. McGrath asserted that Dawkins has become better known for his rhetoric than for his reasoning, and that there is no clear basis for Dawkins' hostility towards religion. I"
I think that is true.
"Dawkins has been a harsh critic of pseudoscience and alternative medicine. "
? what does he consider pseudoscience??
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As a supporter of the Great Ape Project – a movement to extend certain moral and legal rights to all great apes – Dawkins contributed an article entitled "Gaps In The Mind" to the Great Ape Project book edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer. In this essay, Dawkins criticises contemporary society's moral attitudes as being based on a "discontinuous, speciesist imperative""