Tuesday 13 December 2011

Alister McGrath: Does Belief In God Arise From a Meme?

Alister McGrath is a long-term critic of memetics. Here he is saying: show me the memes! McGrath is a crazy christian - and so doesn't seem worth very much energy. However, this sort of thing is part of the environment in which memetics exists.

From a lecture entitled "The Bankruptcy of Scientific Atheism" by Alister McGrath, PhD, critiquing Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion." This took place at ISCAST 2007 on the Vic Annual Lecture.

More on memes from Alister McGrath here 7:00 in, and here: here.

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