Re: [asa] Interesting review of "The Selfish Gene"

--- Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:

(Quoting a review of "The Selfish Gene)
> The book renders a God or supreme power of any sort quite superfluous for
> the purpose of accounting for the way the world is, and the way life is. It
> accounts for the nature of life, and for human nature, only too well,
> whereas most religions or spiritual outlooks raise problems that have to be
> got around.

It's interesting that Dawkins seems to value a religion by its ability to
explain how the world got to be the way it is (and the reviewer seems to agree
with this perspective) It's true that God tells us that He created the heavens
and the earth, but He told us little of _how_ He did it. Instead He built
relationships with believers. I think this notion of valuing a religion by its
explanatory ability is strictly a human notion.

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Tue Aug 15 22:31:26 2006