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.
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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The 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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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