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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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All Among Country Winner Culture Darwinian Flourish Major None Religious Rival Struggle Tolerate Wage
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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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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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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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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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 should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Course Evolution Human Mind Nature Original Reconciliation Religious Selection Theory Traditional View
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Ant Dominant Great Habitat Impact Inspect Million Year
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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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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Combine Exceed Genre Likely Planet Variety Virus
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Century Challenge Economic Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation
Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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