Saturday, October 6, 2007

Richard Dawkins is SO right!

Analyzing Dawkin’s most famous work, The Selfish Gene, we can see the systematization of a reality known a thousand hundred years ago, the human being is selfish by nature. The irony of that rests in the fact that the result of Dawkin’s research completely agree with the book that he most condemns. The Bible.

Yeah, Dawkin’s conclusion is no news to the Bible’s scripture, in fact is one of the main thoughts in a lot of the teachings in this book. And we must praise the zoology teacher for his effort, that in the end, was capable to prove a biblical truth that says that human nature is essentially evil (Jeremy 17:9; Romans 3:10).

In another words, the science in favor of faith. Dawkins in favor of Bible. Very Ironic. It’s a shame that for sustains his intransigent point of view, that God don’t exist, he had to pass trough situations like this. I don’t see any problem with his denial of God, the problem in my opinion is that old cliché: “The worst kind of blind is the one that don’t want to see” (proverb commonly used in Brazil, I don’t know the English version of it). Don’t change his opinion it’s not an indication of intransigency, but don’t judge all information available (what science demands) is cover the eyes to see, that’s intransigency. I don’t want to prove anything, or convert Dawkins, or he’s followers with this text, but lead to a simple observation that things aren’t so simple.

To tell the truth, there is the complication, ‘cause makes no sense at all for a selfish organism to perpetrate acts of altruism. And that’s the great problem in the moment for the evolution theory, that can’t explain the presence of altruism. That little act of self donation without wait for anything in exchange. Or even the simple honesty ethics, that make you alone in a dark room don’t dare to cheat in your income declaration. Or maybe you do, than that annoying feeling of guilty appears, from where, if the gene is selfish and just cares with his own success? As they keep trying with no success, to solve this problem, the most obvious is silenced by will reasons and not rational ones. The same will that he condemns in religion, the auto-blind(if I can say this) one. What’s so obvious? Oh, I don’t even need to say, you know it, even if you deny.

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