Is evolution ultimately just a creation myth, and is it based on faith?
No. Evolution is not “just a creation myth”, as some extremists argue. Creation myths are, in general, stories about the creation of the world and/or of humans told by a culture and often accepted as true on one level or another. They are not upheld by facts or by evidence. Evolution, on the other hand, is a scientific theory that has been rigorously tested by the scientific community and that successfully explains phenomena that other theories fail to account for. Support of evolutionary theory, therefore, derives not from faith – either in evolution or in its philosophical underpinnings – but from careful review of the scientific evidence. Please see Talk.Origins – Evolution and Metaphysics. What implications does memetics have for religion? None, really. Memetics and the theory of memes simply explain cultural phenomena, including religions, in terms of the differential survival of replicators – memes – which aggregate into larger meme sets and memeplexes. However, the mere fact tha
