What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
E. O. WILSON- 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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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
E. O. WILSONWe ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WILSONI tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. WILSONTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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.
E. O. WILSONReligious 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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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.
E. O. WILSONIt’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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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