@Matias ok if you don't know then what do I have to do with it?

You can do a google search.

Within the evolution debate he is considered a leading Neo-Darwinist. They say that we are all products of our genes selfish need to survive. On the other end of the evolution debate are the intelligent designers, In between these two there are at least 10 other less popular theories. Some point out that sometimes genes are not just selfish but often cooperate in order to evolve. I just finished studying all these theories in my New Thought Seminary class, but I have to admit, I'm out of my depth.

@Seminarian Dawkins says about his book, "The Cooperative Gene would have been an equally appropriate title for this book, and the book itself would not have changed at all. I suspect that a whole lot of mistaken criticisms could have been avoided."

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@Seminarian I have learned on my own and I learned of his thinking through evolutionary biology and ecology of biology in undergrad. The best example the professor gave was a computer game of cooperation, bio-models and stats. I think under 10 people participated. It was based on the scenario of prairie dogs that risk their own lives to save their biologically-related extended families. Once in a while, the group would explode in population when there were cooperators. Humans, I think have the same thing going on, but they also have complex thinking and some will be extremely altruistic at their own personal expense (choose not to have children in hopes of saving overpopulation and survivability for future generations), that may not be related to them. I did not understand why he was such a threat as "The Selfish Gene" has been around for thirty years. Thanks for your help.

@AlPastor Thanks in the articles they assigned to us Dawkins was described as a proponent of non-cooperative genes. If that is not true than he doesn't belong at the far end of the spectrum.

@Seminarian In "The Selfish Gene" Dawkins even went beyond the selfish and cooperative to suggest in a thought experiment that there may even be an altruism gene that he coined as a "green-beard gene,"

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@AlPastor Wow, it is good to know that if I was another slime mold, the other slime molds might cooperate with me. Thanks for the link.

You'll make a very poor fanboy (fangirl, fanwoman) with that attitude! Maybe girls don't do the worship thing. I've never heard of a fangirl.

@brentan I will leave the worship to my friends, who both Catholic and Protestant alike go like good little lambs to be reindoctrinated every Sunday, whether they need it or not!