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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.

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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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Course Evolution Human Mind Nature Original Reconciliation Religious Selection Theory Traditional View
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Combine Exceed Genre Likely Planet Variety Virus
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ant Away Collapse Ecosystem Environment Land Many Partial
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Accept Behaviour Choice Corrosive Economic Environmental Ethic Faustian Growth New Ourselves Population Price Risky Stock Unavoidable Upon Very
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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Ago All Back Dispaper Equilibrium Exust Mankind Regenerate Richm State Thousand World Year
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
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
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Emerge Idea Imagine Own Part Real Sake World Study
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Author Biblical Evolution God Important Miss Most Privy Provision Really Revelation Theology
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Adaption Belief Evolved Hard Itself Religion Tribalistic Wired
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Best Education Environment Save Way Women
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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