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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.

Daniel Dennett

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Moral Ourselves Technology Understand
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
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
I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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Color Criticism Deny Experience Myself Pain People Repeat
You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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Advertisement Better Religion Subtract Yourself
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
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
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
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive

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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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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