Darwins Dangerous AND Breaking the Spell

Darwins Dangerous AND Breaking the Spell

Darwins Dangerous AND Breaking the Spell

 Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Paperback – February 6, 2007 by Daniel C. Dennett (Author)

Reading these reviews, it's fascinating how many people attack Dennett for things that aren't in this book.

- "Science can explain everything". But the book isn't about everything: it's about psychology and sociology, which are sciences.

- "Dennett's an atheist". Well, yes, but he acknowledges that religion is pervasive; the book is about trying to understand why people act and think the way they do, not to change what they believe. (Unless you think that to understand religious belief is to destroy it - but you'd better be able to justify that.)

- "Dennett doesn't understand philosophy". A silly accusation to make of a distinguished professor of philosophy. Yes, Dennett dismisses traditional phil.of.relig. for this debate, but that's because it has nothing to say about the phenomenon of belief.

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Darwins Dangerous AND Breaking the Spell