Charlie Rose: Dan Dennett - Breaking the Spell (Part 5 of 6)

Dan Dennett joins Bill Moyers on the Charlie Rose show to talk about his new book 'Breaking the spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon'. Dennett is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. His other books include 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea', 'Freedom Evolves', and 'Consciousness Explained'.

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[JiangZiyaTabooDays]

Haha, rather than the History of Religion, Moyers corrects him, "The History of God."

God was born March 19, 13,000,000,000 BC. God was a troubled child, always getting wet willies from Ahura Mazda and Thor. God withdrew from society, smoking pot for 12,999,995,000 years. Then he made the Heavens and the Earth, a dude, a woman from his rib, cursed them, did some genocide, wrote a book, sent himself as his own son to be tortured, and wrote another book. He now resides in Florida."

[mohfoz77]

EXCELLENT.

[WC3POchannel10A]

Funny how atheists like Dennett find the human made artifices of God, that is religion, like a baby is fascinated by colored, sound making blocks hanging above them in the crib.

[RunfromtheHeathen]

@JiangZiyaTabooDays  Finally someone understands me.

[TheSultan03]

This was softball for Daniel. He didn't need softball. Fun to watch, though.

[TheSkunkCat]

@JiangZiyaTabooDays

You forgot the part where he used to get really stoned and ran around with his underwear on his head calling himself 'The Holy Ghost'. Which was his crazy superhero alter ego.

[cbrusharmy]

@JiangZiyaTabooDays I think he meant the concept of god in that situation, rather than a being itself.

[w13d3rgEb0r3n]

This is why I hope to go into neuroscience, so that one day we can extrapolate brain states to mental states (experience of a cathedral included).

[w13d3rgEb0r3n]

This is why I hope to go into neuroscience, so that one day we can extrapolate brain st

[natedaug1]

Except for Marxism, Marx is like Hegel, a totalizing philosophy, that encompasses all of reality. Marxism is often very similar to religious fundamentalism both are highly dogmatic.