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.
DANIEL DENNETT
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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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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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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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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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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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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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There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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