Monday, March 5, 2007
Biology and Belief
If you haven't read it yet, check out the cover story from the New York Times Magazine exploring the relationship between evolution and belief in God:
Which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God — evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident? Is there something about the cognitive functioning of humans that makes us receptive to belief in a supernatural deity? And if scientists are able to explain God, what then? Is explaining religion the same thing as explaining it away? Are the nonbelievers right, and is religion at its core an empty undertaking, a misdirection, a vestigial artifact of a primitive mind? Or are the believers right, and does the fact that we have the mental capacities for discerning God suggest that it was God who put them there?
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/03/biology_and_bel.html