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| <i>'''Darwin's Dangerous Idea'''</i> (1995) is a book by ] that puts forward the principle that ] ] is the central organising force not only in ], but also in most other aspects of the ], including the human mind (see ]). | <i>'''Darwin's Dangerous Idea'''</i> (1995) is a book by ] that puts forward the principle that ] ] is the central organising force not only in ], but also in most other aspects of the ], including the human mind (see ]). | ||
| Dennett regards Darwinism as a “universal acid” that eats through virtually all traditional beliefs, especially Christianity. He calls Darwin¹s ] by ] “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.” | |||
| ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life'' ISBN 068482471X | ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life'' ISBN 068482471X | ||
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) is a book by Daniel Dennett that puts forward the principle that Darwinian evolution is the central organising force not only in biology, but also in most other aspects of the Universe, including the human mind (see Neural Darwinism).
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.”
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life ISBN 068482471X
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