Religion is not a maladaptive “illusion” (Freud), nor is religion a manipulative “opiate” (Marx). Religious behavior is a ubiquitous biological adaptation rooted in Homo Sapien Humans, because ...

How Has Religion’s Evolution Debate Evolved? THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: This month marks the 100 th anniversary of the sensational “Monkey Trial,” a.k.a. the “Trial of the Century,” in Dayton, ...

“If religion has benefits for individuals and groups, why can’t we say that evolution has favored the development of religion, even though it has no bearing on reality.” Religion does have benefits ...

Where do your beliefs come from? There's a school of thought that sees religion as a mind virus that wastes the time and effort of human beings, but evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein offers a more ...

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My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

For many people of various faiths, support for the scientific theory of evolution has not supplanted their religious belief. And throughout the modern Judeo-Christian tradition, leaders have asserted ...

Scopes trial becomes Scopes myth. A popular-yet-inaccurate history of the 1920s called Only Yesterday promotes a cartoonlike tale of the Scopes trial. The trial is reduced to a simplistic battle ...