>Are we the gods of Nature?
>A question:
>
>It seems like Brodie (in his book "Virus of the Mind") and Bloom (in
>the book "the Lucifer Principle") are saying that Mother Nature and
>her son Natural Selection are stupid and going senile…and it is up to
>us humans to take over their job of evolution…and become the
>Masters of the Universe if you will.
"Masters of Ourselves" is more correct, I suspect.
>This seems strange to me.
>
>I mean…why not just let evolution and Natural selection do their
>work?
>Why try to interfere with it by proposing the concept of "selfish-
>genes" and ‘selfish-memes"?
>
>I mean…if genes and memes are selfish…so what? Why should that
>disturb us? After all its "just the way things are"…the natural course
>of evolution.
So is the extinction of species.
-Prof. Tim