Dennett — “I think we should stop treating ‘God works…”

Source: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking — Daniel C. Dennett

Book page: dennett-intuition-pumps-part-1

From: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking — Quotes

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I think we should stop treating [“God works in mysterious ways”] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, “Oh good! I love a mystery. Let’s see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?