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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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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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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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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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