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?
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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