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Atheists & Agnostics

edhopper

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3. Steven pinker talks about the evolutionary

Reply to onager (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 04:52 PM

Jun 2016

trait to love ice cream. Of course we didn't evolve to love something that was invented a few hundred years ago.
But what ice cream does is hit many wants and needs that we did evolve, fat, sweet, cool, etc...
I think religion is like that, there is an evolutionary component, but it isn't an instinct.

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New Book - No, we're not hard-wired for belief. [View all] onager Jun 2016 OP

I've never been particularly impressed with the "hard wired" argument, no matter the subject. Act_of_Reparation Jun 2016 #1

Well, what we're "hard-wired" for is to look for agency in everything. trotsky Jun 2016 #2

Steven pinker talks about the evolutionary edhopper Jun 2016 #3

What we are hard-wired for Curmudgeoness Jun 2016 #4

That's going on the request list at our local library! progressoid Jun 2016 #5