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Vor 2 Tagen · Researchers have found that the less religious people are, the more likely they are to believe in UFOs. “The Western world is, in theory, becoming increasingly secular—but the religious mind remains active,” writes psychology professor Clay Routledge, in The New York Times. He notes that belief in aliens and UFOs appears to be associated ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The term “meme” was first introduced by British biologist and author Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins coined the term to describe an idea, behavior, or style that spreads within a culture from one person to another through imitation. The word itself is derived from the Greek word “mimēma,” which means “that which is imitated.”
Vor 3 Tagen · Back when Richard Dawkins was fashionable — how rarely one says this, but thank God for Twitter, which allowed him to ruin his reputation with everyone under 50 — I remember reading a philosopher, his name escapes me, arguing similarly against the “selfish gene” theory that, if you look at our actual behavior, our primary biological purpose is obviously not reproduction but talking ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Photo credit: Richard Dawkins, by Magnus Norden (151212035) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. This made me smile. In case you missed William Dembski’s important article here, “Dawkins the New Cultural Christian,” do go back and read it. But atheist Richard Dawkins has now doubled down. Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues ...
Vor einem Tag · In a recent Freethinker essay, Eoin Carter credits Thomas Paine with writing three ‘era-defining texts’. The first two were Common Sense (1776) and Rights of Man (two parts, 1791-2). The third was The Age of Reason (three parts, 1794, 1795, and 1807), which dealt with his views on religion. Although these views may have been implicit in ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Quote by Richard Dawkins: "We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators...." at www.quoteslyfe.com. This quote is about rebel, earth, tyranny, machines, power, built, selfish,. Download or share this Richard Dawkins quote with your friends on facebook ...
Vor 3 Tagen · THE Real Meaning of the BOOK of GENESIS--GENES--GENETICS The Genetic Blueprint of Mankind [1] Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. [2] The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal...
