The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind.
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If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.Edward Wilson
There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.
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In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
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It doesn't matter whether you believe Darwin got it right or that the Genesis story is literally true. We can all agree that, however it got here, the living creation on which we all depend for our existence is something we don't want to see destroyed.
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Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
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