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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Burn Cook Destroy Economic Gain Meal Paint Rainforest Renaissance
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Drown Information Starve Wisdom
We 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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Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
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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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Another Committed Fail Find Forgive Guy Lost Quest Those
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
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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Course Evolution Human Mind Nature Original Reconciliation Religious Selection Theory Traditional View
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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Ago All Back Dispaper Equilibrium Exust Mankind Regenerate Richm State Thousand World Year
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Adaption Belief Evolved Hard Itself Religion Tribalistic Wired
Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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All Can Give Need Persist World You
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
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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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
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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Cail Cease Come Environment Perhaps Time View
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Around Depend Energy Fungal Major Material Olayerm Cycle World
It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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