XboxLive Gamertag: Daniel Dennett
A brief history of Games, that I've played.
I'd like to meet:
I would like to meet: Agnostics, Atheists, Brights, Freethinkers, Humanists, Rationalists.
"NO TRUTHERS!"
Music:
Don't like Country Music or BagPipe sounds, it just makes me feel like holding my ears and screaming STOP IT! STOP IT! I CAN'T TAKE IT!
Movies:
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. As that unhappy poet A.E. Housman put it: ‘For Nature, heartless, witless Nature Will neither care nor know.’ DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. -River out of Eden (1995)DANCE MONKEY DANCE!It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.
-The Blind Watchmaker (1996)
Television:
NOVA , PBS ,BBC , HISTORY , DISCOVERY , SCIFI , G4 , LEARNING , SCIENCE , FOOD , TRAVEL , COMEDY , HEALTH , VH1 , MTV , E , and The SATAN Channel.
Heroes:
“Man is a marvelous curiosity . . . he thinks he is the Creator’s pet . . . he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn’t it a quaint idea.†[Letters from the Earth]"It was Carl Sagan that said we are Star-Stuff, but there is a more poetic and more accurate way to say it. It is quite literally true that we are Star-Dust. In the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. -Neil deGrasse Tyson "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.(Richard Dawkins)History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.
(Carl Sagan) I Really miss Him.(1934-1996)We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
(Stephen Hawking)
"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)Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
(Stephen Jay Gould)A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. (Albert Einstein)If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
(Charles Darwin)
