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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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Alive Ancestor Another Essential Humanity Intellectual Keep Large Purpose Sacred Sense
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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Ant Creature Dead Depend Land Lead Remove
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Adaption Belief Evolved Hard Itself Religion Tribalistic Wired
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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Care Conquest Consequence Loyalty Moses Nothing Other Planet Plenty Say Stay Tribal
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Achievement Enlightenment Faith Justify Measure Reasonable Science Think
There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Any Create Green Next Other Revolution Seem Way
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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Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Anything Desire History Passion Same Science Taight Truth
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.
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Accept Behaviour Choice Corrosive Economic Environmental Ethic Faustian Growth New Ourselves Population Price Risky Stock Unavoidable Upon Very
There is no better high than discovery.
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Better Discovery High One Liner
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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Altruism Among Group Individual Member Mix Selfishness Society Versus Virtue
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
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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Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
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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Century Challenge Economic Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation
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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