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No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

E. O. Wilson
Prayer, Religion, World
E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

E. O. Wilson
Struggle, Religion, Atheism
"Consilience". Book by Edward Osborne Wilson, 1998.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

E. O. Wilson
Science, Religion, Tests

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

E. O. Wilson
Faith, Lds, Religion
"Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, p. 256, 1998.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

E. O. Wilson
Brain, Mind, Religion
"Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries?" by Marilynne Robinson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

E. O. Wilson
Mind, Religion, Hens
E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

E. O. Wilson
Believe, Mind, Religion

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

E. O. Wilson
Religion, Atheism, Information

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

E. O. Wilson
Biblical, Religion, Important

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