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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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 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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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