“to lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago”

#richarddawkins #death #birth #read

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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.”

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Tonight I enjoyed this passage describing an atheist’s view on miracles in Richard Dawkins’“The God Delusion”: “If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.”
#Atheism #Spirituality #Miracles #SpiritualBNR #SBNR #RichardDawkins #AmReading

El gen egoísta: La evolución desde la perspectiva del replicador

El biólogo Richard Dawkins publicó en 1976 una obra que cambió la forma de entender la selección natural, desplazando el enfoque del individuo o la especie hacia la unidad más pequeña de la herencia: el gen. La premisa central del libro es que los seres vivos, incluidos los seres humanos, funcionamos como máquinas de supervivencia, estructuras biológicas complejas construidas y programadas por los genes con el único propósito de asegurar su propia continuidad a través de las generaciones. Bajo esta óptica, no somos nosotros quienes usamos a los genes para reproducirnos, sino que los genes nos utilizan como vehículos temporales para replicarse y persistir en el tiempo.

El término "egoísta" no implica que los genes tengan una conciencia, voluntad o maldad; es una metáfora para describir su comportamiento. Un gen prospera en la población si sus efectos aumentan las probabilidades de que el cuerpo que lo aloja se reproduzca con éxito. Aquellos genes que no logran este objetivo simplemente desaparecen del acervo genético. Este enfoque permite explicar comportamientos que a simple vista parecen contradictorios, como el altruismo animal. Cuando un individuo se sacrifica por sus parientes, en realidad está ayudando a que las copias de sus propios genes, presentes en esos familiares, sobrevivan y se sigan transmitiendo.

Dawkins también introduce en esta obra el concepto de "meme" (en términos de que sea un dato o información cultural que el individuo debe tener presente, no las imágenes graciosas que se comparten en internet). Así como los genes se replican de cuerpo en cuerpo, los memes —ideas, modas, melodías o creencias— se replican de cerebro en cerebro mediante la imitación. Al igual que en la biología, los memes compiten por recursos limitados, en este caso nuestra atención y memoria, y aquellos más eficaces para ser recordados y compartidos son los que logran sobrevivir en la cultura. Esta perspectiva unifica la evolución biológica y la cultural bajo una misma lógica: la supervivencia del replicador más apto.

#Biología #Evolución #Ciencia #RichardDawkins #Genética #Cultura #Memética #Divulgación #librorecomendado #comportamento

My disappointment with #RichardDawkins coulnd't be greater. It started a few years ago when he publicly defended #ElonMusk as being a good man and a genius, despite it being known at that time already he was a fascist and a con man. My 1st reaction was WTF? This guy is a king of skepticism and critical thinking and he can't even figure that one out? Well, it turns out he is also a misogynist, a pedophile protector and a member of the #EpsteinClass ...

#EpsteinFiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO9FZXUgv4

Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are

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Interesting take on the whole #Epstein thing showing some of our hideous leading atheists' strong connections to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO9FZXUgv4

#RebeccaWatson is ace - as is #PZMyers - the pair having consistently called out the privileged sex criminals in their midst and broken friendships thereby.

So #RichardDawkins , #LawrenceKrauss , #MichaelShermer et al - we see you.

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After Cristina Rad’s accusations about #LawrenceKrauss I was happy to reject him for good even though I'd enjoyed his debates on religion.

But I never knew what to do with #RichardDawkins. Certainly people I respected in turn respected him, his work seemed quite perceptive, and his debates with theists were incisive and civil.

But he also behaved in ways I found bizarre, and I was left just appreciating his good work but not amplifying him in any way because I didn’t know who I would have been amplifying.

Now I do.

#SkepChick #RebeccaWatson

https://skepchick.org/2026/02/epstein-files-reveal-how-pathetic-richard-dawkins-other-men-are/

Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are

Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…

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youtu.be/ZoO9FZXUgv4 #epstien #EspsteinFiles
In 2012 the entirety of the of the organized #atheist movement had a massive split, based on if you were pro or anti-feminism and it took people like me several years to find our feet again after getting backstabbed by the people we thought were on our side which always hurts way more than if attacked by an enemy. @rebeccawatson and Jennifer McCreight (sp) of A+ infamy becoming the evil villains and pariahs of the black pill "Skeptics" community. So much of this was so confusing to all of us. I just chalked it up to monetization algorithms, making anti-feminist videos big cash cows. But what happened to the upper layers who weren't relying on that money confused me. After 14 years now, everything makes a lot more sense now, thanks to the fact that people like #RichardDawkins got too big too fast and flew too close to the sun on the #Lolitaexpress .
I'm glad these horrible people are being exposed. Pull everyone down, no matter their religion or politics if they had any serious ties to Jeffery Epstein.
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