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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!

Daniel Dennett

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
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
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
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
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
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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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
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
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
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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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time 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
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
The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason

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