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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

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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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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 world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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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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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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