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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Ant Creature Dead Depend Land Lead Remove
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Anything Desire History Passion Same Science Taight Truth
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Ant Dominant Great Habitat Impact Inspect Million Year
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Drown Information Starve Wisdom
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Ant Biomass Cemetery Dominant Inspect Make Myuchm Quater Predators Principal Tell Well Worker
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Achievement Enlightenment Faith Justify Measure Reasonable Science Think
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Assumption Condition Human Part Relentless Science Test
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Being Brain Even Human Individual Laboratory Maze Millionth Rat Simple Size Thought Use
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Ant Complicate Earth Human Most Next Organization Social
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Company Further Growth Share Willing Withhold
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Century Challenge Economic Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation

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