{The Selfish Egg}[4th April 1979]

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One of the alarming things about the 'egg creates hen creates egg' argument – which I came across for the first time yesterday, twice: once in Watson's new book, I think, just after I had been looking at a copy of Samuel Butler's 'Erewhon', and once in the New Scientist – is that if we are simply a product of the gene's desire to recreate itself, there is very little room (at least at first sight) for a World created for the value of Man's experience to God. The ultimate question behind the Universe remains, of course, unanswered.

I suppose it does at least knock on the head the view that nothing can create anything more complex than itself, if you take the genetic creator/survivor argument literally.

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