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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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 those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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