Expert Lecture: daniel dennett

I definitely agree with Daniel Dennett in the sense that I also believe that “no two people mean the same thing by ‘God’”. I really liked his example of a “teapot agonistic” attitude toward the concept of god. I like this because, like I’ve said in previous posts, if you cannot prove a positive, then you also cannot prove a negative. No one can prove the existence of God to me and I cannot prove that God does not exist to anyone. Which brings me again to the question, “what is god?” Is it nature? Is it a “greater being”? I guess the only thing we can do in order to get closer to the answer is to wait patiently for the truth to reveal itself.

Honestly, I did not enjoy watching two old men argue in circles. They spend so long trying to prove that they are right and the other is wrong but in the end, all they accomplish is to agree to disagree. The funny part is that they know that they will not accomplish anything with their pointless argument and yet, they cannot resist the temptation. What really annoys me about Dennett is that he keeps on saying, “I don’t know. I don’t know”. He is supposed to be an expert and even if he is an expert on “not knowing,” he should at least sound more confident and not like he’s in doubt.