The Predetermination of Genes

In this chapter, Dawkins exposes how all oroganisms are built to function in a certain way. We and all other living creatures are machines, and are built in this way with the sole purpose of preserving our genes. I believe this holds a clear connection to predetermination because it tells us that our bodies are built in a certain way that we cannot alter or define. We cannot help what we have been born to do, which is merely reproduce and preserve our DNA, in other words, our selfish gene. Preserving these genes leads to evolution, and to my point. If we really are nothing but machines, built for the purpose of making our genes prevail, then our fate is set. We will evolve, becoming every time more selfish, the gene becoming more and more dominant, leading inevitably to our self destruction. We are gene machines meant to grow and evolve to preserve a gene that is meant to kill us. I find this to be very ironic, but it is the way we are built, anbd it is what we mostly do, work to preserve and maintain what in reality hurts us most.