“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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.