Today I wanted to write a few words with a very interesting work, such as R. Dawkins book selfish gene

I found myself impressed by the good works of Richard Dawkins. This is filed, that I'm writing a thesis while criticizing kreacjonistyczną thought. The subject is very much may already hackneyed but trying to work was quite original. I go to write very slowly. Inspired to take up such a topic was just in contact with the books R. Dawkins. Yesterday, during a trip by train was a major part of an exceptional book that the selfish gene.

Selfish gene is a unique book that presents a simple language for the layman to answer one of the concerns of humanity questions - questions about who we are, what is our goal. Surprised? think that they do not know the answer to this fundamental question?

Living organisms exist on Earth, not knowing why they exist, for more than three billion years, before finally in the head of one of them zaświtała true. It was Charles Darwin. You have to admit that the truth I guess others, but to Darwin, is the question of which served as the title of this chapter, we can give a reasonable answer dociekliwemu child. In response to a fundamental question: Does life have any meaning? Why do we exist? Who is man? - No longer need to refer to supernatural forces.

Of course, always will be people who do not distinguish what is the truth and striving for it from what you would like to see the truth - what Dawkins calls already at the beginning of his book. Darwinian paradigm is today, from a scientific point of view, indisputable. Despite repeated efforts to have his overthrow it as well. The more trials that paradoxically falsyfikacji with evolutionism better.

Philosophers and scientists today that differ from the public, that they are closer to the truth than the desire to seek answers to them comfortable. The great simplicity: counts for them even worst than the truth usilna fight for what is convenient for them. I prefer to know that the world is cruel (if it actually is), rather than betray continuously that there is good, love, justice and the future.

As the author writes:

Idea of this book is the view that both we and other animals are machines created by our genes. [...] I tried to show that the most important feature, which can be expected in prosperous gene is ruthless selfishness. Selfishness gene generally leads to selfishness in individual behavior. In the first sentence, the words "certain" and "limited" are very important. It matter how much we would like to be otherwise, universal love and the good of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not have the evolutionary sense [p. 19]

The author stresses later, that is not the spokesman of morality based on the principles of evolution.

What's very important, as has been previously mentioned emphasis on very often appearing in the wrong reasoning failure of the distinction between expressing the view of the actual state of affairs orędowaniem for a state of affairs, which is considered as desirable.

I want to emphasize here that this very important issue about which the author is not mentioned in the book. Often, today we have no awareness of how many already know about human nature. None of this knowledge results in the transfer of responsibility for filling this gap to the realm of "metaphysical", which is from the perspective of the average zjadacza bread in addition to a substantial simplification brings yet another plus: composes his desired response. Unfortunately, if only such a man is deceived - sometimes also participated in the duplication of the Defamation. Dawkins's book draws attention to the fact that the very number of key questions have already replied.

The answer can not be optimistic. We are, in fact, machines, which serve nearly immortal genome (which are constantly fighting for survival). Our bodies are only temporary śmiertelnymi coatings maksymalizującymi opportunity for success survival genes. Altruistic behaviors occur only when paradoxically serve selfish purposes genes.

There have been designed by a conscious intelligence.

With the beginning of the machinery of survival were just containers for genes, giving them little more than guard against chemical attack from rivals [...] The two main types of machines to survive opanowały increasingly imaginative tricks on a variety of ways to improve its efficiency in life [... ] Odgałęziały is still new subtypes and subtypes podrodzajów, each of them excellent in specialized ways of life in the sea, on land, air, on the ground [...] [p. 75]

We heartily recommend this book.