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by Allocator2008 6241 days ago
Professor Dawkins is one of my all time heroes. Selfish gene theory stands at the center ultimately of all anthropology, sociology, biology, and psychology. He has transformed the world by giving us an understanding of our own existence, he has answered the age-old question of "Why are we here?". We are here, to preserve and copy the genes. They should build a statue of him next to Darwin. He is the apotheosis of human understanding. Like Prometheus, he has "given man a gift they had not conceived, and lifted darkness off the earth."