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Originally Posted by Chris T
Faith? How odd.
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its interesting that noones mentioned the 'meme' yet, that explains a lot about faith and many other human idea's.
http://www.memecentral.com/
"Welcome to Meme Central, the center of the world of memetics.
Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection.
As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives.
They are a kind of Drug of the Mind. Confused? Blame it on memes."...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
"Meme
According to
memetic theory, a
meme (
IPA: /me:me/,
IPA: /me:m/ or
IPA: /mi:m/)  a unit of
cultural information,
cultural evolution or
diffusion  propagates from one mind to another
analogously to the way in which a
gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of
genetic information and of biological
evolution.
Multiple memes may propagate as cooperative groups called
memeplexes (meme complexes).
Biologist and evolutionary theorist
Richard Dawkins coined the term
meme in 1976.
[1] He gave as examples tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashions, ways of making pots, and the technology of building arches.
Meme theorists contend that memes evolve by
natural selection similarly to
Charles Darwin's theory of
biological evolution through the processes of
variation,
mutation,
competition, and inheritance influencing an organism's reproductive success.
So with memes, some ideas will propagate less successfully and become
extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse,
mutate. Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for
the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts.
The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, gaining a degree of penetration into
popular culture rare for an abstract
scientific theory."...