Yes but No

The Selfish Gene is the first book I read that talks about science and so clearly, and I can feel Richard Dawkins talking to me. I enjoyed reading the first chapter and his explanation of the book, though I had no idea about half of the things he said. Anyways, there are many interesting and completely diverse points he talks about that called my attention, but what I really liked came up in page ten.

I have found the combination between religion and science very difficult. Nevertheless, last year my school principal came in and had interesting similarities between both of them. In that moment we were studying the Bible, so he pointed out that probably the world wasn’t created in seven days, but it did follow the order that nature would expect. Since then, I have a part of my brain connecting science and religion.
That part of my brain was used when I read, “A human foetus, with no more human feelings than an amoeba, enjoys a reverence and legal protection far in excess of those granted to an adult chimpanzee.” (The Selfish Gene. Pg.10). I know that Richard is not trying to make any points about abortion or anything, but what he wrote makes my opinion about abortion. I am a woman and have my maternal senses in a healthy state, but I ask myself, how much love can you grow for a premature being that you haven’t met.
Nevertheless, there is a lot of controversy about this theme, but I found other statements in the book that agree with me. “Killing people outside of war is the most seriously-regarded crime ordinarily committed.” (Pg.10), states Richard and it is true. Killing innocent and guilty people, is best received in our society, than taking the life from a non-thinking being for their own benefit. However, Dawkins states that fetus have rights and privileges over anything else, because they are from our own specie. This statement applies to those who oppose me against abortion, but they aren’t consistent about it when it comes to war.

In every species there must be some traditions used for killing and taking your life on behalf of the rest. However, in our case, we are still mixing our animal and rational side when it comes to thinking. For our animal side, we understand that killing is necessary, but it the case of right and a mature way of living, no one should die unnaturally. Having this confusion we have mixed ourselves up, so for my part I decided to take the nature’s side, but I do recognize that we can’t label any way of thinking “wrong”.