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.
E. O. WILSONIn 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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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