Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WILSONThe world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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