Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. -Daniel Dennett

 

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.


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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Daniel Dennett

[Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing?] No intelligent designer, ... would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.

Daniel Dennett

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Daniel Dennett

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Daniel Dennett

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

Daniel Dennett