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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.

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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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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