Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.