Thread:Forum:Genetic evolution vs memetic evolution (LQT!)/Gene propogation machines/reply (19)

I was replying to Jack who reproduced your quote (thus the ""quadruple"" quotation marks). Here is the fuller quote:

"As such I am programmed to prefer my offspring over those of others. This is not wholly determined - adopted children are loved as much as natural offspring - but it is summed up in the old phrase "blood is thicker than water" or, as SJC's son said - "Kids that you are related to are cuter". "

Note the topic of this thread. Perhaps I don't understand either one of you.

"Looking for unquestionable evidence or any kind of teaching in this corner of the web is liable to be frustrating and fruitless."
 * Not really looking for it, just arguing that any evidence doesn't seem to be there. You agree?

"Using your own made-up definitions of words such as "philosophy" is guaranteed to make discussion useless."
 * This is a close one, "An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism" but I would say "speculation" rather than "reasoning". Or "doctrine: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school" Being that I consider myself a (bad) philosopher, I like to poke fun at people who think they practice "science" because they ramble in "scientificish" jargon, as in erroneously using some observation of the natural world or a "scientific study" to support their philosophy (usually naturalism which isn't such a bad religion, but genetic determinism is off the deep end, IMO).