Well I despised the last E. O. Wilson book I read - "The Social Conquest of Earth" because I found him completely off base

But

His recent book on Creativity which I'm currently reading is Wonderful and Everyone should read it! And then about 1/3 in I come across this which says even more, Everyone Should Read this Book:

"Why then are the humanities kept on starvation rations? Partly because so much of our available resources are appropriated by organized religions. The vast majority of people around the world belong to one particular religious faith or another, which is defined not so much by a belief in God as by its idiosyncratic creation myth. Each member is committed to believe that his religion’s creation myth, accounting for the supernatural origin of the universe and humanity, is superior to all others. The problem is that all the myths cannot be correct; no two can be correct; and almost certainly none is correct."

E. O. Wilson - The Origins of Creativity

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