Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig -...
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- Tremolo on 2007-06-27 - Tags alienation , fragmentation , god
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Call it God; call it superstition; call it, as Atran does, “belief in hope beyond reason” — whatever you call it, there seems an inherent human drive to believe in something transcendent, unfathomable and otherworldly, something beyond the reach or understanding of science.
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But it was not clear to him what evolutionary problems might have been solved by religious belief. Religion seemed to use up physical and mental resources without an obvious benefit for survival.
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