Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Triumph of the Gene II

It seems that Triumph of the Gene was a pretty accurate heading as we hear more from Arch-Atheist Richard Dawkins on what he thinks is wrong with our theocratic world and how he would improve it...

In a letter to the editor of Scotland’s Sunday Herald, Dawkins argues that the time has come to lay this spectre to rest. Dawkins writes that though no one wants to be seen to be in agreement with Hitler on any particular, “if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability?”
“I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler’s death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them,” Dawkins wrote Sunday.
And if breeding is OK can culling be far behind... ?

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