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About this title:- As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.
- This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews.
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According to the 2021 Census, 27.05% of London's population identified as atheist.
Other religions in London include:
Christianity: 40.66%
Islam: 14.99%
No response: 7%
Hinduism: 5.15%
Judaism: 1.65%
Sikhism: 1.64%
Buddhism: 1.0%
London has many centers of worship for different faiths. However, it has a lower percentage of atheists and non-religious people than the rest of the UK. This is likely because London has a higher percentage of people who practice other religions, including Muslims and Hindus.
The UK is among the least likely countries in the world to believe in god. In 2020, the British Social Attitudes Survey found that 53% of British adults had no religion. The proportion of people who say they are "very or extremely non-religious" has more than doubled in the past two decades.
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Naturalistic Worldview -John Lennox-
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including humans?
(assuming no significant destruction to environment)
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I cant seem to apreciate The New Atheists with their postmodern and anti-theism approach. As if the existential security and detachedment to reality is pulling them from experience life 2000 feet below. At least, Neitzsche and Camus arrived themselves to the conclusion of of nihilism. "God is dead...and we killed him...how can we comfort ourselves, the murder of all murderers?" People dont just killed God, we kill our own meaning, value and purpose of life. Well what is the alternatives? absurdism, ubermesh and "secular humanism"? Good luck, maybe luck cant even alter the trajectory of mankind. Crime rate on the rise, sucide on the rise, birth rate decline, gender confusion, corruption from top to bottom, it seems we dont need to think about Roman Empire anymore, we can see the 5th century plays out in real time.
"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference." Richard Dawkin. Yeah, just move on with your life dont cry good nor evil. You dont get to borrow religious language, it just is nothing more nor less.
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He failed on every metric, atheism is dead, and he brought in those most resistant to it through his liberal mind virus, and so Rushdie is silenced and so is he, and all we are left with is the Dawkins Delusion, a man who doesn't even understand his own ideas.
You claimed that Atheism is "dead in London." Those two things cannot coexist. Also, Atheists have *increased* as a percentage of the population of England over the last three decades, based on the census. Increased means "went up." What do you not understand about that?
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If you have to ask the "if its true" you may indeed want take the time to read The Selfish Gene. Its a spectacular trip through the evolution of life. Though as already mentioned, some of Dawkins' other titles may be a better introductory overview of evolutionary theory.
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