In article <1172268954.526413.306340@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
mightymartianca@gmail.com says...
> On Jan 12, 7:23 am, "Uncle Davey" <jerzy.jakubow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=853
> >
> > This article is about Skilling, the Enron white collar criminal
> > inspired by Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene, his favorite book.
> >
> > I thought that the Dawkins fans on some of the groups I have posted to
> > would like to make a comment on whether they agree that Richard Dawkins
> > is co-responsible for the defrauding of so many poor investors in the
> > name of Darwinian selfish-geneism.
>
> I'd like to know if we can start blaming Jesus Christ for the murder
> of six million Jews.
Dawkins has long ago addressed the fact people in the "greed is good"
1980's misinterpreted the title of his book and thought that it was some
kind of justification for greed. In fact, it has nothing to do with any
of that. It says that genes function in a "selfish" manner, in the sense
that their "goal" is to propagate more copies of themselves. But that
says nothing about the motivations of human greed.
--
Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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