Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Is God An Accident?
A fascinating piece from the Atlantic Monthly:
Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe. Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question … is God an accident?
As seen on Metafilter, where you can read a good, wide-ranging discussion on the issues raised by article.
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thanks for the link!
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just testing me new phone…
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Oops - sorry Rexx, that wasn’t a surreal reply to your comment - just didn’t see it when playing with the new mobile!
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