True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. WILSONThe variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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