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Indeed he did. The speaker in the film is Jeremy Rifkin; his book Algeny was called, by Stephen Jay Gould (who I am a big fan of), "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship". Evidently this video is a prelude to another book he will be releasing with the same title as this thread.

He does seem to have taken particular generalizations of science a bit too far, but I don't think it undermines the point about increasing the diameter of our 'tribe' over time. I have heard that rhetoric a few times, most recently another notable atheist/skeptic - Shermer - ended his section of a debate I attended on "Does God Exist?" with a call to expanding our 'tribe' to include more 'others,' regardless of God's (non)existence.

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