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No need or reason to apologize. I fell robust discussion to be a thing of value. I was just making a snarky remark on something I’m passionate about since it affects every facet of our lives. As for monkeys, if I had one, I’d have a hard time choosing between Scopes or Darrow for his name. 👍😄👍 All the best, Nonoise |
@mahgister There's a huge gulf between The Selfish Gene and the allied academic material that surrounds it, and his much later books like The God Delusion. In a way it's a pity he published those texts in the 2000s, as it diverts people's attention away from the earlier ground-breaking research in genetic biology. |
twoleftears I dont doubt that he published valid genetical biology papers, this fact is very recognized.... But his philosophy is not interesting....His concept of meme is also very poor.... A complete semiotic theory of the symbolic function in culture is way over his head and cannot be reduced to genetic biology....Publishing some valid research in genetic dont make you a great thinker... And Believing or not in God dont make the concept of God trivial by no means....Man is deluded not by the concept of God or even by his relation to God but by the cultural appropriation of God....Trashing the baby with the bath is no great philosophy and not science at all.... I apologize to you for being perhaps rude because i am too serious... My best to you... |
Cool! Clicked on the thread and wound up in a philosophical discussion about science. Here are some of my thoughts but I have have no science background to draw upon. Gravity is not understood and remains a theory as some have stated. If you get into physics you will learn that we know very little about gravity. Once you get into how it impacts bodies in space, it can get weird. We fully understand the results here on Earth but we also have to understand that when it comes to physics, we're in our infancy. No one has brought it up so I will. And I don't mean to get all "ancient alien" here but when it comes to the ascent of man (no gender bias intended) how is it that we cannot understand how the pyramids were built or how some of the stone masonry was accomplished in Peru. If you really want to bend your mind go to Cuzco and just start looking around. Things just don't add up in our (perceived) understanding of the advancement of human technology. I have been there and you just leave shaking your head and rejecting what we have been taught. Additionally, considering the previous point, we like to consider evolution in a linear scale. We learn new things, they get passed down and humans advance. Pretty simple. Let's consider the fact that 150 years ago we were using horses for transportation and we now have rovers on the planet Mars. Ok, linear progression right? Now how is it that ancient people wandering around the desert managed to build the pyramids with such precision that we could not accomplish that today? The knowledge came from somewhere. Where? And where did it go? How was this knowledge lost and what was its source? If we went from riding horses to a rover on Mars in roughly 150 years and we (man) built pyramids with great precision roughly 5000 years ago.....what happened? As I stated, the ascent of man is not linear and man is not evolved from apes. I don't have any answers, I only have questions. |
