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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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