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Beware evolutionary ‘just-so’ stories about religious belief
Denis Alexander January 5, 2011.
Print: The Guardian
Evolution may have delivered tendencies to believe certain things but that does not tell us whether those beliefs are true. There are risks in making up evolutionary “just-so” stories to explain the origins of complex human beliefs, such as religious ones. Evolutionary biology will be of little help in “explaining” human beliefs in either quantum mechanics or the finer points of theology.
