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Without An End To The Burning Of Fossil Fuels, Coal Especially, Most Of Us Will Live Shorter Lives. I'm Hopeful, But Very, Very Concerned.

I'll Admit That The Discovery Of Evolution Is Humbling, But It Is Also Empowering. It Transforms Our Relationship To The Life Around Us. Instead Of Being Outsiders Watching The Natural World Go By, We Are Insiders. We Are Part Of The Process; We Are The Exquisite Result Of Billions Of Years Of Natural Research And Development.

I Try To Speak Plainly And Be Sympathetic To The Idea Of Religions Where People Gather In Community. They Get A Sense Of People Looking Out For Each Other. My Claim Is That We Have A Tendency To Look Out For Each Other Whether Or Not There Is A Religion Involved.

If We Raise A Generation Of Students Who Dont Believe In The Process Of Science, Who Think Everything That Weve Come To Know About Nature And The Universe Can Be Dismissed By A Few Sentences Translated Into English From Some Ancient Text, Youre Not Going To Continue To Innovate.

You Start Doing The Addictive Behavior To Feel Good And Then Your Receptors Get Overloaded With Dopamine, Then You Stop Doing The Addictive Thing And Some Of The Receptors Have Shut Down And You Don't Have Enough Dopamine To Feel Good. So Then You Feel Bad And Go Back To The Addictive Behavior To Get More Dopamine. The Strange Thing Is That It Works With What We Think Of As Uppers And Downers And Whatever You Call Gambling - Sidewaysers.