You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
DANIEL DENNETT
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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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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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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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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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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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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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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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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