To: Monti Cello
If evolution alone explains humanity, then an individual's sole objectives ought to be spreading DNA and preventing others from doing so, and any other purpose in a purely material world is for suckers.Why would you identify your own personal goals with those of your genes?
(And, as a matter of fact, since your own genes are to an extent in competition with each other, which of your genes do you intend to side with?)
26 posted on
01/04/2006 9:45:52 AM PST by
Right Wing Professor
(Liberals have hijacked science for long enough. Now it's our turn -- Tom Bethell)
To: Right Wing Professor
(And, as a matter of fact, since your own genes are to an extent in competition with each other, which of your genes do you intend to side with?) Speaking of this, have you by chance read through Genes in Conflict by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers? I saw it the other day but didn't pick it up, and was wondering if it would be worth adding to my library.
27 posted on
01/04/2006 9:55:39 AM PST by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: Right Wing Professor
Why would you identify your own personal goals with those of your genes? I don't. Perhaps you missed the 'if' at the beginning of my statement. Anyone's decision to have children would obviously align genetic self-propagation with personal goals.
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