Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imperiling a vast array of species within a few square miles of you. The number of these species may go to tens of thousands. Many of them are still unknown to science, and science has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance of that ecosystem, as in the case of fungi, microorganisms, and many of the insects.