[HiTech RedNeck]

Prove that it was, and prove that this makes the word unusable.

[onedoug]

From Wiki...it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)[1][5] as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

As to the second part that ¨I don´t recognize words invented by atheists,¨ that seems quite clear. Especially ¨pop¨ atheists.