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205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

The Michael Shermer Show

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Are We Adaptable to the Human Condition?

We have no right to expect that we should necessarily solve these difficult problems, like the hard problem of consciousness, or like ar quanto mechanics. Our brains were not, we're not adapted to understand these really difficult problems. In a way, it's a wonderit's a wonder that we can understand so much as much as we do,. At least some of us do. Not, notnot me in most cases, but term that some members of the species homosapians are capable of understanding quanta mechanics is, to me, a wonder fact.

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