Philosophy- nature of life (secular)

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What did Charles Darwin work undermine?
Religious accounts of creation- biblical narratives could no longer be hold in front of geology findings
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What did Darwin teach?
Darwin was a mechanism for how evolution occurred- we are NOT the pinnacle of creation
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What is a quotation from Darwin?
'Species are rendered to a large extent declined and distinct objects'
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What is Darwin's book?
'On the Origin of Species' 1859
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What does Jean-Baptiste Lamarck say?
That we are increasingly complex organisms
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What did Richard Dawkins say?
'Evolution has no long term goal'
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What did Dawkins say men and women are?
We are machines
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Who is Peter Williams?
Strong analogy between DNA and computer discs
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What do Hard Materialists say?
They don't accept that individualist characteristics are anything more than physical ones
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What do both Soft and Hard Determinsts say?
Body and mind die together
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What do Soft determinists say?
Don't accept that all characteristics are physical ones
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What do materialist say?
There is no soul
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What is Richard Dawkins book?
The Selfish Gene
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What did Gilbert Ryle say about an afterlife?
That the process of an afterlife has been alluded
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