Out Pops Adam

Dawkins used his book to express some of his "hate" towards religion. In his second chapter I found a plethora of phrases that made emphasis on mocking some religious beliefs. For example: "the Septuagint could at least be said to have started something big when they mistranslated the Hebrew word for 'young woman' into the Greek word for 'virgin', coming up with the prophecy: 'behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son'"p.16

Although his remarks don't offend me, I do feel they are useless in the book. The book is supposed to be didactic and those little insights to Dawkins religious opinion don't have any educational purpose.

                                 

Let's try putting Dawkins theory into a Hollywood related example. If a teen star gains fans they will start to behave like her. The chain is created when an increase in fans means a higher increase of fans in the future. She is the trend. Therefore, she is the replicator. For some reason she is worth following and worth our time like the Matterhorn is worth naming. We can say that many lives will not be remembered because they don't have those abilities others had, or they had them but chose not to use them. Perhaps those that are being remembered are special because they are attention seekers. That is what keeps them from being unimportant. To conclude you must seek attention to make your life worth remembering.