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These things are irrelevant to evolution just as they are to gravity. Natural science does not deal with 'love', 'feelings', 'morality', or 'spirit' so they have no place in this discussion. I mean, you wouldn't ask a seismologist studying the plasticity of the components of the Mohorovicik Discontinuity how his work led to better understanding of 'love' and you wouldn't ask the botanist studying the orchid I mentioned how his work contributed to the concept of absolute justice and morality. Science does not bother with these things, that is the responsibility of philosophers and theologians to debate. It always will be. If natural scientists did try to involve such abstract concepts as 'love' and 'morality' in their work, it would destroy their impartiality. The idea is to understand the universe the way it
is, not to try to force on it abstract, human values.
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what do you think then of Richard Dawkins'use of the word 'selfish' in 'The Selfish Gene?'
genuinely curious
the cat