Times New RomanI supposed that there must be selection pressure with regard to memes as there is a hierarchy in them. The existence of hierarchy should enable an appropriate setting for evolution. Besides, whenever you have hierarchy you have some sort of choice as well. I could be wrong, of course. About God: as God is above this hierarchy, and omniscient, and an absolute free agent, he must be your best shot at trying to eliminate the meme hypothesis. Djordje On 9 Apr 01, at 19:22, vinclef wrote: ArialHi,Times New Roman  ArialOne could ask what is the significance of omniscience for memes. that means that their is an unlimited space for memes to go in . For any meme that existed, exist, will exist or would exist, there is nofinite space to compete for because vital space is infinite. So there is no selection pressure, no darwinian evolution at all.Times New Roman  ArialSo what about choice? choice could be a mechanism by which memes are selected along some guiding lines, in a particular cultural environment in mind.Times New Roman ArialIf omniscience means no selection, it may mean no choice possible because choice is selection.Times New Roman  ArialIs god really free ?Times New Roman   Dr. Djordje Vidanovic Professor of Linguistics and Semantics University of Nis, Serbia -------------------------------------- djordjev@junis.ni.ac.yu gvidan@EUnet.yu =============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit