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Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools

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Dan Dennett |

TED2006

• February 2006

Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution.

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Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution.

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Philosopher, cognitive scientist

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Dan Dennett made the case that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes.

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