Quoting Dan Dennett: "Yes, eyes are for seeing, but these and all the other purposes in the natural world can be generated by processes that are themselves wit

Quoting Dan Dennett: "Yes, eyes are for seeing, but these and all the other purposes in the natural world can be generated by processes that are themselves without purposes and without intelligence. This is hard to understand, but so is the idea that colored objects in the world are composed of atoms that are not themselves colored, and that heat is not made of tiny hot things." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/show-me-the-science.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/show-me-the-scienc...