Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other
Daniel DennettThe secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Daniel DennettAtheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.
Daniel DennettThere are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
Daniel Dennett