"Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs."

Science, Evolution, Nature, Biology, Self

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"Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs."

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"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

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"If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well."

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