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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Daniel Dennett

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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Evidence Life Science Subject
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Break Down Forever Ignorance Relative Religion
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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Decision Future Improvement Live Open World
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
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
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Goodness Hide Mistake Trick Yourself
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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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
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.
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Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word

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