Evolutionary Theology and God–Memes: Explaining Everything or Nothing

It is not uncommon for Darwinists and memeticists to speculate not only that god–memes (cultural units for belief in a god) evolved as maladaptive traits but also that these memes do not correspond to anything real. However, a counter–Darwinian argument exists that some god–memes evolved as adaptive...

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Main Author: Poulshock, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2002
In: Zygon
Year: 2002, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 775-788
Further subjects:B Theology
B Memetics
B Atheism
B god–memes
B memeplex
B Science
B Religion
B Metaphysics
B Methodological Naturalism
B science–meme
B Memes
B Theism
B positive correspondence to reality (PCR)
B Richard Dawkins
B faith–memes
B Susan Blackmore
B noncorrespondence to reality (NCR)
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