“So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.”
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
