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Stagnation versus Personal Growth

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Stagnation versus Personal Growth Melvin Feller has always read Richard Dawkins and his various views. However, he mainly is very controversial according to Melvin Feller. This is one of Melvin Feller’s favorite quote from Richard Dawkins. Stagnation versus Personal Growth by Melvin Feller “ We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. ” — Richard Dawkins To me, it asks several important questions. Only the naive among us will ne...