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.
DANIEL DENNETTTo 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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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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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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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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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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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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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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