Where angels no longer fear to tread European scientists are in the process of spending €2m to understand religion, or rather the reasons people believe in God, or other Deities. Religion cries out for a biological explanation. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon - arguably one of the species markers of Homo sapiens - but a puzzling one. It has none of the obvious benefits of that other marker of humanity, language. ... Read full entry
Where angels no longer fear to tread
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 25 March, 2008 to the comment subset
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