A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. WILSONI tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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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 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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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