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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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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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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Emerge Idea Imagine Own Part Real Sake World Study
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 moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Alone Effort Endeavour Honorable Humanism Imperative Moral Provide Succesful Successful
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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Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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All Ant Bird One Seen Them Tree When
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
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Fierce Have Mist Odd Powerful Productive Religion Science Two World
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
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Company Further Growth Share Willing Withhold
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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Course Evolution Human Mind Nature Original Reconciliation Religious Selection Theory Traditional View
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
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Around Depend Energy Fungal Major Material Olayerm Cycle World
Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Bug Every Grew Kid never Out Period
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish

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