As much as I love Dawkins.......

[DeistPaladin]

Dawkins needs to stick to discussing evolution and leave both philosophy and social issues to those who know what they're talking about.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Language is an outcome of a process, it is not a thing by itself.

Evolution is a process, and a human abstraction, but that does not undermine its reality. You cannot put evolution in a box and mail it to Cleveland -- does that mean it isn't actual?

It should be noted that language evolves according to geography and usage, and that one can build a cladistic tree of languages just as one can build one for species. That enhances the value of meme as metaphor, once you understand that language consists of memes, oftentimes.

[robvalue]

I love Dawkins too, and I saw him first so hands off.