The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
by Jesse Bering
Buy on AmazonAn evolutionary psychologist examines humans' belief in God and argues that it evolved in the species as an “adaptive illusion” that originally had an evolutionary purpose, now outdated, that ensured the survival of the human race.
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"If humans are really natural rather than supernatural beings, what accounts for our beliefs about souls, immortality, a moral ‘eye in the sky’ that judges us, and so forth?”"
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