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.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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