Cultural Darwinism ''memes"

Abstract

The idea of ​​memes represents an attempt to extend the application of evolutionary theory to human culture, and it is a model for the transformation of Darwinism from a scientific theory to a worldview and a comprehensive vision of reality.

This study sheds light on an attempt to explain cultural development from a Darwinian perspective, through a specific concept of the cultural repetition, and thus an attempt to link Dawkins 'idea of' meme 'with issues of religious belief, arguing that religions are essentially' mental parasites ', and that belief in God is' information that is repeated. Itself 'by itself', as 'it jumps contagiously from mind to mind'. An idea Dawkins finds both academically attractive and human repulsive, and has figured prominently in recent popular atheistic writings.

However, scientific evidence confirms that such entities have no evidence, and that they are hypothetical structures that were deduced from observation rather than observed per se. As well as being unnoticed; They are useless at the explanatory level.