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ErinDoppelheuer's picture

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I found Dennett's book frustrating and not as interesting as i had hoped.  I am a fan of Darwin and his discovery of natural selection.  One thing that i had not known before reading this was how Darwins ideas and findings were based off of an algorithm.  The question, did God create all creatures in the begining and plan out evolution or, are all of us just some big mistake?  I think that people like to believe that fact that God created everything because it gives them something concrete to beleive and because it is just so hard to grasp the concept that we are possibly a mistake.  Why did God only create us here on Earth, why didnt he create us or something like us on another world(meaning planet or moon) in our solar system? 

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