US ambassador killed over a film

[Jester]

Not quite. The "god gene" and the issue of "memes" are both topics of somewhat deeper examination than your discarding this as a simple fallacy.

Which gene is this? I don't think we have isolated anything like a "god gene". Vague speculation by famous atheists is nowhere near enough.

Memes, this is precisely the point - we have created a taxonomy of memes that lumps a bunch of disparate things together as "spiritual." But they share little, and are mutually contradictory. Their "similarity" is a product of our perspective, not an objective phenomenon.

I forget if it was Harris or Dawkins who arrived at the conclusion that over time, humans seem to have become hardwired toward that predilection. An interesting manifestation of evolution, no matter how you slice it, no matter your own biases.

I'll believe it when I see the genetics. Right now, it's all just a bunch of speculation - if you don't understand something about psychology, just blame evolution, and who can gainsay you? It's an "explanation" that explains nothing.

-Jester