God's utility function
978-613-0-87430-8
6130874308
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2010-09-22
54,00 €
eng
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. God's utility function is a phrase coined by Richard Dawkins in his book River Out of Eden. "God's utility function" is the third chapter in this book. Dawkins uses this phrase to expound the Gene-centered view of evolution by equating the phrase to the meaning of life or the purpose of life. This is the why question about life which philosophers and theologians have been pondering in vain for ages, and is a counterpart to the how question about nature which engineers have been able to resolve successfully. Dawkins first recounts how Charles Darwin lost his faith in religion by quoting his words, "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." We ask why a caterpillar should suffer such cruel punishment. We ask why digger wasps couldn't first kill caterpillars to save them from a prolonged and agonizing torture. We ask why a child should die an untimely death. And we ask why we should all grow old and die.
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