[Home]History of Darwins Dangerous Idea

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Revision 13 . . December 15, 2001 9:38 am by Ed Poor [added dennett quotes on creationism and evolution]
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Revision 11 . . December 15, 2001 12:25 am by Lee Daniel Crocker [Dennett didn't coin _any_ of those terms; he just uses them well.]
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Dennett regards Darwinism as a “universal acid” that eats through virtually all traditional beliefs, especially Christianity. He calls Darwin¹s theory of evolution by natural selection “the single best idea anybody ever had.”

People “used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down,” Dennett says, but we must now “replace the traditional idea of God the creator with the idea of the process of natural selection doing the creating.”


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