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Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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4. What we are hard-wired for

Reply to onager (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 07:34 PM

Jun 2016

is questioning, awe, fear...and all of these things are answered by religion. Sadly, when you lean on religion for all your answers, you never experience these things totally. And if you use religion for all your answers, you will never seek answers. We might still be sacrificing virgins to volcanos if there were not people who looked into what caused them to erupt, or how to know when they might.

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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