Dr Daniel Dennett - The Evolution of Religion. Pt1

Dr Daniel Dennett speaking at Caltech in 2006.

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003472X/sr=1-1/qid=1155677583/ref=pd_bbs_...

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Education

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• atheism
• evolution
• religion
• meme
• culture
• inherit
• god

[neotropic9]

you cut off the vid in the middle of a point he was making.

[rgbda]

my apologies, he concludes in the video response section.

[bigmikemd410]

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.."

Thomas Jefferson

[jtrubilla]

Wording is very important in this case as well. You can be a logical person talking about religion, but you can't be a religious person talking logically about anything.

As soon as you devote your life to believing in fairytales, logic goes out the window.

[sodalight666]

to varify his last sentence, a friend of mine is raised a muslim, in the western world, she does believe a god exists, but all that comes forth out of that is fear. fear of judgement of her family and this god. such a shame

[gaetanomariadigiorgi]

This barb is white for nothing.....!

[Roelandvinken]

I'm a logic person talking about religion ;)

[jtrubilla]

agreed, but if it is unclear what this person is saying, the entire point is lost.

You're not a religious person talking about logic are you?

[Roelandvinken]

Arguments are hardly dependent on spelling.

The structures of logic apply in every language.

[jtrubilla]

If your argument cannot be understood, what good is it?