Religion, Science and Human Nature

"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views."

"People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive."

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

--- E. O. Wilson (1929 -  ). Biologist.