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Christian Belief Through The Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 1 of 6

By Valerie Tarico May 26, 2009.

Print: The Huffington Post

” This article is the first in a series of six. Each takes a look at some part of our mental machinery, how it relates to our tendency toward religious belief.”

‘Theory of mind’ explains belief in God

Andy Coghlan March 9, 2009.

NewScientist

Once we had evolved the necessary brain architecture, we could “do” religion, brain scans indicate.

Darwin was right. Up to a point

Simon Conway Morris February 12, 2009.

Guardian.co.uk

When physicists speak of not only a strange universe, but one even stranger than we can possibly imagine, they articulate a sense of unfinished business that most neo-Darwinians don’t even want to think about, says Simon Conway Morris