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Darwins God
Posted By: Matt Reklaitis In Response To: How many people can I piss off today? (Stick)
Date: Thursday, 22 March 2007, at 5:36 p.m.
Fun NYTimes article on this subject...
excerpt: "Lost in the hullabaloo over the neo-atheists is a quieter and potentially more illuminating debate. It is taking place not between science and religion but within science itself, specifically among the scientists studying the evolution of religion. These scholars tend to agree on one point: that religious belief is an outgrowth of brain architecture that evolved during early human history. What they disagree about is why a tendency to believe evolved, whether it was because belief itself was adaptive or because it was just an evolutionary byproduct, a mere consequence of some other adaptation in the evolution of the human brain."
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