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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Thomas Riggins on Michael Shermer On Daniel Dennett

"Michael Shermer On Dennett's Breaking The Spell"
By Thomas Riggins
Political Affairs, 21 Feb 2006
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/2818/1/151/

Also on Thomas Riggins' blog, 6 Oct 2006
http://leninlives.blogspot.com/2006/10/michael-shermer-on-dennett_116014764341074964.html

In re:

BREAKING THE SPELL: RELIGION AS A NATURAL PHENOMENON by Daniel C. Dennett, Viking, New York, 2006, 464pp.,
reviewed by Michael Shermer in SCIENCE 27 January 2006.

Riggins makes short shrift of Shermer's shallow, politically biased, pseudo-evolutionary perspective on the history of religion.