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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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