Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
DANIEL DENNETTThere are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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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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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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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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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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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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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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