My problem is with those that use a meme as a physical replicator of ideas.
Please demonstrate one place where someone has said that there is a physical replicator here - direct from Dawkins would be a good start ..
.. or have you created a straw man in your mind that bears no relation to reality? Certainly that is what your whole argument seems to be based on.
Memes are ideas, ideas are transmitted. Birds do it, bees do it, many undereducated animals do it. The japanese macaque previously mentioned were shown to do it. Dolphins, elephants and whales do it.
What is scientific about that.
You can observe it in humans and other animals, you can document it and measure how it spreads within a population, and how it changes over time; you can make working hypothesis on how this happens, make predictions from those hypothesis and test them: anything you can quantify, measure, hypothesis, predict and test is scientific.
If one considers the concept of memes to be scientific then they have no argument to use to say that ID isn't scientific.
Show me how to observe, document and measure ID and see how it changes over time; show me what working hypothesis have been developed with the predictions based on those hypothesis and the tests for validity that have occurred: demonstrate that you can quantify, measure, hypothesis, predict and test ID.
Personally I think the idea "meme" is just a cute shorthand way of saying that ideas can travel, mutate, grow in popularity and die out in popularity in a way similar to gene propogation within populations. It's not really necessary though, as we can equally talk about ideas.
Just like ID is a cute shorthand for god-did-it.
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