{"id":238,"date":"2006-06-09T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T06:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-07-25T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T20:12:45","slug":"dyson-on-dennet-in-nyreview-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/06\/09\/dyson-on-dennet-in-nyreview-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyson on Dennet in NYReview of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freeman Dyson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/19090\">reviews<\/a> Daniel Dennet&#8217;s <em><a title=\"More about this book from Barnes &#038; Noble\" href=\"http:\/\/service.bfast.com\/bfast\/click?bfmid=2181&#038;sourceid=41397204&#038;bfpid=067003472X\">Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon<\/a><\/em>. He gives what appears to be a fair summary of the book, but takes issue with Dennet&#8217;s opinion that religion is harmful and states &#8220;I see religion as a precious and ancient part of our human heritage. Dennett sees it as a load of superfluous mental baggage which we should be glad to discard.&#8221; Finally after what I found to be a rather weak rejection of the utility of Dennet&#8217;s program of scientific investigation of religion, he digresses to a discussion of suicide attacks which I think is more useful than the last part of what he says in response to Dennet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeman Dyson reviews Daniel Dennet&#8217;s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. He gives what appears to be a fair summary of the book, but takes issue with Dennet&#8217;s opinion that religion is harmful and states &#8220;I see religion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/06\/09\/dyson-on-dennet-in-nyreview-of-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}