Our point is to illustrate that without access to knowledge of evolution, humankind would lack several key applications essential to current human well-being.
So, even as knowledge of humanity supplants knowledge of God as the keystone of the system of knowledge, the scientific perspective on humanity starkly challenges humankind's self-conception as occupying a privileged position in the order of nature.
Does it ignore opportunities for the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of humankind?
Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.
My dream is that 40 years from now, the terrible carnage now wracking the Middle East will give way to building and utilizing knowledge for the betterment of humankind.
Amicus curiae and famous co-discoverer of the DNA double helix James Watson concluded his amicus brief by quoting his own words: "The Human Genome Project... is as precious a body of knowledge as humankind will ever acquire, with a potential to speak to our most basic philosophical questions about human nature, for purposes of good and mischief alike" [ 66].
Let those of us who may have been educated in the ivory towers of academia abandon the notion that we belong to a society that holds knowledge of the universal truths of humankind and the cosmos.
Companies should be seen as the vehicle for the marshalling and stewarding of human, physical and knowledge assets in the service of humankind.
For him common sense is an original source of knowledge common to humankind, by which we are assured of a number of truths that cannot be evinced by reason and "it is equally impossible, without a full conviction of them, to advance a single step in the acquisition of knowledge" (Philosophy of Rhetoric, vol. 1, p. 114).
Our future, the future of humankind, depends on our knowledge, our remembrance, of the horrors to which our parents and our families were subjected during the Holocaust, and what we, collectively, do with that knowledge.
