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Maybe our perspective is just wrong. If you consider that DNA itself is the life on earth, and not "us" in particular and that maybe DNA is the only life possib

• yesenadam 7y ago
  "We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment" - Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976 Dawkins talking about the first sentence, about 1980: "...that was no metaphor. I believe it is the literal truth, provided certain key words are defined in the particular ways favoured by biologists. Of course it is a hard truth to swallow at first gulp. As Dr Christopher Evans has remarked, "This horrendous concept - the total prostitution of all animal life, including Man and all his airs and graces, to the blind purposiveness of these minute virus-like substances - is so desperately at odds with almost every other view that Man has of himself, that Dawkins’ book has received a bleak reception in many quarters. Nevertheless his argument is virtually irrefutable" ... http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58430 http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58430