Re: A call for book recommendations, and the old "Selfish Gene"



Tim Tyler seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:-

Dawkins did a documentary in which he (uncharacteristically)
stopped avoiding the question of human future evolution - and
indicated that he thought that humanity had the potential to
dispense with natural selection's rule, take charge of its
own evolution, and pursue its own self-defined goals:

http://digg.com/videos/educational/The_Big_Question_Why_are_we_here

A couple of quotes from Richard in that documentary follow:

``The unrefined world of natural selection is not the
sort of world I want to live in.''

JE:-
May nature protect all of us from more refined (i.e. group) selection which
Dawkins will inflict if given just a half a chance...

``We can leave behind the ruthlessness, the waste, the
callousness of natural selection.

JE:-
Dawkins attempts to force nature through the eye just his own tiny
(preferred) needle: Van Valen's non existent war of nature with Hamilton's
non existent organism fitness altruism. What he misses entirely is
everything outside of the eye of that needle: continuous organism fitness
mutualism operating in nature without a war.

Our brains, our language,
our technology make us capable of forward planning.
We can set up new purposes of our own, and among these new
goals can be a complete understanding of the world in which
we live.''

JE:-
Of course Dawkins et al (he was and remains a fully paid up member of the
Looney Left and was W.D. Hamilton and I suspect L. Van Valen ) will do all
of this "forward planning" for us. How very nice of them to offer. I prefer
the free market working within the limitations laid down by the law (i.e.
cultural natural selection) thank-you-very-much.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx






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