Mary Midgeley

[Thomas]

An English moral philosopher, and from her wiki entry, the source of some delightful ideas:

On religion

"I couldn't make it work. I would try to pray and it didn't seem to get me anywhere so I stopped after a while. But I think it's a perfectly sensible world view ... It turns out that the evils which have infested religion are not confined to it, but are ones that can accompany any successful human institution. Nor is it even clear that religion itself is something that the human race either can or should be cured of."

 

[A Cup Of Tea]

Thank you for this! We will be reading The Selfish Gene at some point and I think I she has some good material for me to absorb.