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.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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