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Breaking The Spell
    #5724792 - 06/07/06 10:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'm interested in finding out if anyone has read this book: Breaking The Spell: Religion as A Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C Dennet. I recently had the opportunity to attend a lecture he gives while on tour of most colleges. If you have C-Span you can probably still catch a repeat of it on C-Span or C-Span2 or something as I've noticed it while flipping through the channels.

If you've read this book i'm interested in hearing your views. As you may no it got terrible reviews in the New York Times but was also the NY-Times bestseller.

As a semi-serious philosophy student while in school I had the opportunity to read a bunch of his papers and several books (some of you may know him from Darwin's Dangerous Idea). I reccomend it to atheist, agnostic, and religious/spiritual folk alike. Very important read I'd say.


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Re: Breaking The Spell [Re: neuro]
    #5725787 - 06/08/06 05:05 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I saw his book on consciousness in the bookstore the other day, it looked intriguing, but nothing really new I think.


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