Darwin, Morality, Religion, Politics, Extremism
1/25
I just finished reading Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) by Daniel Dennett, a difficult book that is probably 30% wordier than it needs to be but was well worth it for me. The subtleties of Dennett’s explanations, and his defense of natural selection as the explanation for life on Earth, go well beyond what I was taught during my bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in the biological sciences. He even challenges what he considers misunderstandings by several academicians of Darwin’s fundamental beliefs as laid out in On the Origins of Species and does a pretty convincing job in my opinion.
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