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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes…
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The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else…
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Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them.…
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We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For…
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Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide that hope, that confidence, and that strength we need to overcome the world and…
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Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the…
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When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a…
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely…
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