RE: [untitled message from Ilf]

From: Price, Ilfryn (I.Price@shu.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 19 Jan 2006 - 10:21:56 GMT

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    I am not commiting merely citing.
      Any thoughts btw on whether a fundamentalist 'memetic allele' is more rife in the Abrahamic Monotheist 'clade'
    (acknowledgements to A Lord -Andrew not the - for the idea)

    If

    >>
    >Finally to link back to religion Cohen and Stewart also speculate,
    >citing Needham this time, that the evolution of real science
    >was easier in a montheist religious culture because there was only
    >one god to offend (I paraphrase slightly), but it may be
    >trickier if there are a whole lot of them.

    Ahhhh.... a very Lynchian explanation. Aaron used to contend that monotheistic religions spread faster because there was only one god whose name needed to be remembered.>>

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