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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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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."
Wrong
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
Chaos
"We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity."
Humanity
"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
Gain
"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
Astronomy
"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."
Debt
"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt."
Life
"The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology."
God
"People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive."
People
"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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