At Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:24:10 -0800, you wrote:
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>Bob G. wrote:
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>>Are we the gods of Nature?
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>Yes, if there are any. ;-)
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>>A question:
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>>It seems like Brodie (in his book "Virus of the Mind") and Bloom (in
>>the book "the Lucifer Principle") are saying that Mother Nature and
>>her son Natural Selection are stupid and going senile…and it is up to
>>us humans to take over their job of evolution…and become the
>>Masters of the Universe if you will.
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>"Masters of Ourselves" is more correct, I suspect.
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>>This seems strange to me.
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>>I mean…why not just let evolution and Natural selection do their
>>work?
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>Ask a stegasaurus why.
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>>Why try to interfere with it by proposing the concept of "selfish-
>>genes" and ‘selfish-memes"?
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>>I mean…if genes and memes are selfish…so what? Why should that
>>disturb us? After all its "just the way things are"…the natural course
>>of evolution.
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>So is the extinction of species.
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>>Why try to fight it?
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>Enlightened self-interest.
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>-Prof. Tim
Mother Nature and evolution through natural selection have gotten us where we are so far. Is this an argument for or against allowing them to proceed uninfluenced?
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher