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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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