The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. - Edward O. Wilson

The only other mammalian carnivores that take outsized prey are lions, hyenas, wolves, and African wild dogs. Each... has an exceptionally advanced social life, prominently featuring the pursuit of prey in coordinated packs.

In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.