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Frederick Smith

Book Review - 'The Faith Instinct - How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures,' by Nichol... - 0 views

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  • Frederick Smith on 11 Feb 10
     
    Review by Judith Shulevitz (author of "The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time"): Wade asserts "the God gene" & its evolutionary function - "to bind human beings into cooperative groups," making altruism, group (over self-) interest & solidarity a matter of conscience (with the gods as enforcers). Shulevitz's criticism is "that he has under-ambitiously portrayed religion as less encompassing and consequential than it is."
Frederick Smith

CAN SCIENCE AND RELIGION RESPECTFULLY COEXIST? - 1 views

Total opposition appears to be the only relationship between science and religion admissible by "militant atheists" like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Caniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. Las...

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