I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
DANIEL DENNETTI am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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