“Memes” as a fixture of atheist orthodoxy are rather interesting. The popularity of these entirely unfounded “things” by allegedly scientific rationalists is evidence of the shallowness of much of the thinking found among them. As far as I can tell “memes” were an invention of Richard Dawkins as a back up for his evolutionary psychology going the way of most of the predecessor schools of psychological specuation. Their existence has no direct scientific evidence and many, perhaps most working scientists think the idea has little or no merit. I think Dawkins latest career as a latter-day T. Huxley is a second parachute in case a crucial mass of those devoted to “memes” suddenly lose their childlike faith in them.