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.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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