We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSONThe one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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