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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.

Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern

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Daniel C. Dennett
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Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Daniel Dennett: life dates 1942 to 2024. Wikidata Q215263, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215263 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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