Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

“We do not know how . . . the idea of God . . . arose in the meme pool,” writes Dawkins, but he’s willing to play the same guessing game and pass it off as established science:

“Probably it originated many times by independent ‘mutation.’ In any case, it is very old indeed. How does it replicate itself? By the written and spoken word, aided by great music and great art. . . . What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance?”