Bravo! Well said.

Timothy SchoonoverQuote: Ok, that helps Jeremy thanks. Do you think you, or anyone really, could put this in some sort of a thesis statement? I tried and just don't have the background in this to do it justice. Again, I would really appreciate this. Not me. . . I don't think it HAS one; in fact, it ...

muzadiQuote:religion isn't really the category, it's ideology, of which religion is one subset. Religion will go away when ideology does, and ideology will go away when people go away.I must sadly accept your conclusion that religions are not going away, but I disagree with the assertion that religi...

I have heard of Wegner, but never read anything by him; I'm certainly "up" for this one. BTW Pinker is touching on some of these issues in Blank Slate, although certainly not to the same depth. Or, if we do select Blank Slate (it is currently tied for most mentioned), perhaps JPRT464 could...

In my opinion, religion/infection is more than metaphor. I consider it literally true. Because religions are selfish memes, it is small comfort that one is currently harmless; they get better or worse according to what propagates them best, not according to the needs of their hosts (us!) or any ethi...

Here is a summary of books suggested so far, in alphabetical order. Books suggested more than once are indicated by the digit to the left.--Karen Armstrong: The Battle for God--Karen Armstrong: A History of God--Karen Armstrong: A Brief History of Islam--Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation--Damas...

The human factorWhat makes our species unique? A linguist and two animalresearchers band together to crack open an old chestnut.By Christine Kenneally, 1/5/2003YOU'RE AN ANIMAL. You're a land-based mammal, a vertebrate, and aprimate. Indeed, there are a thousand ways in which you resemble otheranima...

XilogQuote:Its not clear to me in what way you think I have mis-represented Dawkins, could you spell that out for me?Dawkins says, (paraphrasing), "Genes are bits of chemicals, that can do nothing but reproduce as fast and as far as possible", and you say, "Dawkins is wrong, humans ar...

Timothy, Responding to MuzadiQuote:Well, to say that the intellect and the emotion are various ways of perceiving reality is a pretty big assumption. First of all, that statement flies in the face of the notion of objective reality, which I am not going to affirm or deny here. However, I think that ...

Timothy, Responding to MuzadiQuote:Well, to say that the intellect and the emotion are various ways of perceiving reality is a pretty big assumption. First of all, that statement flies in the face of the notion of objective reality, which I am not going to affirm or deny here. However, I think that ...