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.
E. O. WILSONAnts 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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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