On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Michael Harney dolp...@mikes3dgallery.com
wrote:
Dawkins addresses this a bit in his book _The God Delusion_.
Evolutionarily, it makes sense. Children cannot afford to disbelieve
things that are told to them by elders. Doing so means consuming poisonous
On 11/21/2010 10:17 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Michael Harney
dolp...@mikes3dgallery.com mailto:dolp...@mikes3dgallery.com wrote:
Dawkins addresses this a bit in his book _The God Delusion_.
Evolutionarily, it makes sense. Children cannot afford to
My questionnaire include some digs at the notion of Toxic Memes.
http://www.davidbrin.com/questionnaire.html
From: Michael Harney dolp...@mikes3dgallery.com
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 9:55:54 AM
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Michael Harney
dolp...@mikes3dgallery.com wrote:
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Or, an idea may have
negative survival value for the individual, but positive value for the
group. ex: the Aztecs would sacrifice people to the gods during times of
famine to try and appease the gods to
