Of course, all his "creatures" are machines - and without a doubt, history testifies that man choosing to be a machine is a monster using "Ancient Stabilizing Strategies" (that is ASS not ESS) which apply well to Dawkins. A thousand years ago, this author would be worshiping trees. His is the anthropomorphization of the universe and all complicated "creatures" in it. And, man, this guy has got the microbehavioral answer for everything. "The license" this guy takes about genes having "conscious aims" is a mere herald of a cornucopia of license to come.Īnother big theme is "ESS - Evolutionarily Stabilizing Strategies". This and most of the rest of the book is like playing with one of those hand held computer games which dull our childrens' minds.
(Could this guy write for Disney or what?) Basically it does this by helping to program the bodies in which it finds itself to survive and to reproduce (Pg. If we allow ourselves the license of talking about genes as if they had conscious aims, always reassuring ourselves that we could translate our sloppy language back into respectable terms if we wanted to, we can ask the question, what is a single selfish gene trying to do? It is trying to get more numerous in the gene pool. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA distributed throughout the world. What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Nothing intimidates like the pomposity of a scientist afflicted by logorrhea on a subject outside his field unless it is a human PETA animal worshiper.Ĭhapter after chapter cuts the same pile of ordure in different ways resulting in a perseveration of "genemanship" (Chapter 6). Totally overwhelmed with evolutionary theories accepted in a scientifically uncritical unreflective manner, Dawkins buys into natural selection totally as neo-Darwinism (Darwin with genes) and he believes in "speciesism" meaning that no species has any priority over another. (I ask: Really? How does he know that? And, has he ever heard about homosexuals?) We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes (Opening paragraph to the Preface to the 1976 first edition). Like so many Galileo wannabe scientists drowning in their own grandiose unverified claims, Dawkins is in denial of the universe and mankind but not himself.
The library loaned me a 1989 edition of The Selfish Gene which has two new chapters (12 and 13) that add little but more pretend proof of microscopic behavioral super constriction into analytic fantasies that are intriguing interesting fairy tales totally unverifiable. Prompted to review The Selfish Gene by an article in Our Sunday Visitor, May 28, 2006, I found a pseudo-scientific fantasyland by an ethologist pretending to be psychologist, geneticist, theologian, philosopher, statistician, and know-it-all host as if for CBS News.
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