> >From: Schneider John <JSCHNEID@hanoverdirect.com>
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> >Correct. In the language of memetics, the scientific method is
> >a meme. Period.
>
> Meme: A unit of info in a mind whose existence influences events such
> that more copies of itself get created in other minds.
>
> The scientific method is not a meme. Period. It isn't spreading (I
> see you unfortunately haven't been infected by it yet either). Look
> at this month's issue of Sci American. Our society is being inundated
> with anti-science and psuedoscience. 60% of all Americans still
> believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and it was
> created. Are you one of those people?
It helps if you speak the language of the rest of us on this list. At
the moment, I do not have a common definition of "scientific method" with
you.
> >But - evolution of the species is explained by selfish gene theory,
> >which is how I should have argued in the first place. (oops.)
>
> But evolution of the species is also explained by the Christian God
> theory. Just because it is a good explanation doesn't mean it should
> be used. It can be misleading you.
Your memory doesn't reflect what you have seen. Pity.
The "Christian God Theory" is the fastest way of *negating* the necessity
of biological evolution known.
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