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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Daniel Dennett

Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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Agency Animal Culture Moral See Thinking
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Alone Children Desert Empathy
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Care Effort Examination Life Meaning Worth
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

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