It seems that the truth is actually that there is ‘no’ separation from evolution and the next logical step that is currently preached; the ‘meme’, altruism, and social Darwinism. Science is now boldly preaching our ethics and morality originate from ‘evolution’ while stating that rejecting any part of this is due to silly religious superstition. Does anyone now doubt that there is a difference between evolution/Darwinism and any other scientific theory?
I for one think that it is good that this is now coming to light for those who did not see it or decided to ignore. It is humorous in a sad way as we are now witness the ‘witnessing’ of the new ordained preachers of fundamental science from the books of naturalism affirming their contradictory non-belief - - - Morals, ethics, and consciousness per ‘their’ science via Darwinism, now ultimately originates from mindlessness.
They have excluded any telic or theological ideals from science due to the ironic naturalistic dogmatism that they hold in science while pointing to the historical dogmatism of that which they exclude. If they now choose to engage a playing field, which is again ironically off limits to science due to Darwinism, than I welcome this new discourse. We can now look at ‘evolution’ as a whole and remove the philosophy that has been attributed to this scientific theory.
I don't know specifically about Dawkins and 'meme', but his ideas generally give me a severe case of the screaming memes. { 8^)