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sleepy jack · 02-17-2009, 01:13 PM

I've never really understood the idea (I've mostly heard Dawkins briefly talk about it in interviews and books) that our morals are determined by our genes. I don't think, as beings with independent minds, that we are simply our genes. I think our thoughts allow us to progress beyond that because of our ability to think abstractly. The idea that everything is some misdirected Darwinian impulse just seems too simplistic for me.

02-17-2009, 01:13 PM	#12 (permalink)
sleepy jack isfckingdead Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 18,967	I've never really understood the idea (I've mostly heard Dawkins briefly talk about it in interviews and books) that our morals are determined by our genes. I don't think, as beings with independent minds, that we are simply our genes. I think our thoughts allow us to progress beyond that because of our ability to think abstractly. The idea that everything is some misdirected Darwinian impulse just seems too simplistic for me.