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200 10$aDawkins' GOD$b[electronic resource] $eGenes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life
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215   $a1 online resource (210 p.)
225 1 $aNew York Academy of Sciences 
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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327   $a""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Encountering Dawkins: A Personal Account""; ""1 Selfish Gene: A Darwinian View of the World  ""; ""Introducing Dawkins""; ""The New Approach: Charles Darwin""; ""The Mechanics of Inheritance: Mendel and Genetics""; ""The Discovery of the Gene""; ""The Role of DNA in Genetics""; ""Dawkinsa??? Approach: The Selfish Gene""; ""River out of Eden: Exploring a Darwinian world""; ""2 The Blind Watchmaker: Evolution and the Elimination of God? ""; ""Natural Science Leads Neither to Atheism Nor Christianity""; ""God as an Explanatory Hypothesis""
327   $a""The Case of William Paley""""The Religious Views of Charles Darwin""; ""The Christian Reaction to Darwin""; ""3 Proof and Faith: The Place of Evidence in Science and Religion ""; ""Faith as Blind Trust?""; ""Is Atheism Itself a Faith?""; ""Christian Faith as Irrational?""; ""The Problem of Radical Theory Change in Science""; ""The Rhetorical Amplification of the Case for Atheism""; ""4 Cultural Darwinism? The Curious a???Sciencea??? of Memetics ""; ""The Origins of the Meme""; ""Is Cultural Development Darwinian?""; ""Do Memes Actually Exist?""; ""The Flawed Analogy Between Gene and Meme""
327   $a""The Redundancy of the Meme""""God as a Virus?""; ""5 Science and Religion: Dialogue or Intellectual Appeasement? ""; ""The a???Warfarea??? of Science and Religion""; ""The Poky Little Medieval Universe of Religion""; ""The Concept of Awe""; ""The Mind of God""; ""Mystery, Insanity, and Nonsense""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Works Consulted""; ""Index""
330   $aThis is the first book-length response to Richard Dawkins, author of some of the most popular scientific works, such as The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. Dawkins has become perhaps the world's best-known atheist, noted for his hostile and controversial views on religion. This wonderfully argued book explains and examines Dawkins' scientific ideas and their religious implications. Head-to-head, it takes on some of Dawkins' central assumptions, like the conflict between science and religion, the "selfish gene" theory of evolution, the role of science in explaining the world, and brillia
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