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Dawkins defined a meme as any idea that spreads through a culture and adapts to make people more willing to spread it. This could be anything from a religious belief to a commercial jingle. Internet memes absolutely qualify under this definition.
McGrath sees Dawkins’ proposal as a metanarrative attempting to expand Darwinism from a biological theory into a dominating worldview. 8 Logical consequence of Dawkins’ theory of memes is that if there is a God meme, argues McGrath, there must be an ‘atheism meme’: ‘Dawkins’ model actually requires that both atheism and belief in God should be seen as memetic effects.’, if the ...
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To take another example, in The Selfish Gene Dawkins asks why the meme for belief in god is so persistent (1989:193), and offers the following analysis: The survival value of the god meme in the meme pool results from its great psychological appeal. It provides a superficially plausible answer to deep and troubling questions about existence.
Why whenever he debates with a religious person, and starts giving straw-man arguments, his fans like to say how religious people are dumb, and that Dawkins is one of the best thinkers ever, and sometimes when a person tries to refute some of his claims, his fans will say something like “you cannot beat Dawkins he’s way smarter than you’ll ever be, he would destroy you in a debate.”
Oct 27, 2016 · A noted atheist, Dawkins regards religion as a meme that has taken over human brains for millennia. In his 1991 essay “ Viruses of the Mind,” Dawkins describes religious beliefs as “mind ...
Oct 2, 2013 · Most people know that the word “meme” was coined by legendary evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his seminal 1976 book The Selfish Gene.What few realize, however, is that the vocal atheist and champion of evidence as the holy grail of life, who even penned a children’s book rebutting religious mythology with science, had his first experience of a true meme, decades before he had ...
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Jul 9, 2018 · Introduction. More than a decade has passed since the release of the infamous The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. To call it influential would be an understatement, as the book sold more than three million copies in eight years and a number of different authors, including Alvin Plantinga, Michael Ruse, Richard Swinburne, William Lane Craig et al have exhaustively reviewed it.
