The Selfish Gene - Chapter 10 - Review
Channel: Patrick Theist
Date: 2020-10-09

Richard Dawkins believes that humans are nothing more than gene-carrying machines. Chapter 10 reaches the conclusion that, "man's swollen brain, and his predisposition to reason mathematically, evolved as a mechanism of ever more devious cheating..."
A darkened view of humanity devoid of the possibility of selfless love. Is it any wonder that the world has access to redemption from just such a life of sacrificial altruism. The Selfish Gene is nothing more than a selfish idea; a crude simplification of life, both human and animal, into a basic premise misanthropic disdain for the ideals and values that are universally accepted as good. Values such as love, empathy, self-sacrifice and many others find no room within the twisted cynical premise upon which Dawkins has built his academic facade. 
Any person of modest sense should have no trouble dismissing 'The Selfish Gene' as a non-sensical fiction at best or a cruel, heartless hatred of the human species if taken seriously.