“If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of
God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we
will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no
special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on
teaching your children false-hoods—that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is
not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect,
at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel
free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and
will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest
opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the
planet—depends on the education of our descendants.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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