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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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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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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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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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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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