Darwin's God

New York Times by Robin Marantz Henig | Mar. 4, 2007 (Special Report)

Call it God; call it superstition; call it, as Atran does, "belief in hope beyond reason" -- whatever you call it, there seems an inherent human drive to believe in something transcendent, unfathomable and otherworldly, something beyond the reach or understanding of science. "Why do we cross our fingers during turbulence, even the most atheistic among us?" asked Atran when we spoke at his Upper West Side pied-à-terre in January. Atran, who is 55, is an ... Full Story »

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 by Lewyn Li - Mar. 4, 2007

A detailed account of the views and work of Scott Atran, as well as numerous philosophical trends on the evolutionary origins of religion. It is well worth a read for the diverse information the writer provided. The piece would have been far more interesting and balanced if the writer has probed deeper into the evolutionary origins and advantages of atheism, which predated modern science in many cultures around the wordl and was the dominant ideology in some, such as Confuscianism in China.

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