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

Daniel Dennett

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
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
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
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
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
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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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself

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

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