I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
In my heart I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a...
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to...
We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world...
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection tribe competing against tribe...
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and...
Political ideology can corrupt the mind and science.
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including...
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is...
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create...
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having...
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among...
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even...
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity and that being...
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature...
I had in mind a message although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly...
If history and science have taught us anything it is that passion and desire...
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant...
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the...
For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level...
By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment...
Blind faith no matter how passionately expressed will not suffice. Science...
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky...
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet the rest of life and...
If those committed to the quest fail they will be forgiven. When lost they...
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you...