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From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have
ever
believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-- Richard Dawkins
Is that the same Richard Dawkins who used to be on Hogans Heroes,
and
then hosted the American game show Family Feud? Or am I thinking of
Richard Dawson? Hmmm...
Richard Dawkins is a biologist and a renowned scientific writer. He
stirred up the scientific community in 1976 with a book called "the
selfish gene", where he argued that the gene was the basic unit of
natural selection, not the individual. He regarded individuals as mere
vehicles for the genes.
He later modified his views in the book "the blind watchmaker".
I have no idea where that quote comes from, though...:-)
Jostein
