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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

Daniel Dennett

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
DANIEL DENNETT

Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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Beginning Purpose Reason World
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
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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Brain Ourselves
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
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
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive

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