"After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many."

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Source : "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

Daniel Dennett

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Roles Quotes

“... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.”
“Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.”
“I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.”

Source : Song: I Know You Got Soul
“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”
“[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.”

Source : "Here Comes Playstation 2". www.newsweek.com. March 05, 2000.
“We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry.”
“I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.”

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